Jaipur
Jaipur Shopping
Shops
specialising in precious and semi precious stones, ornaments and jewellery are
to be found on and along Jauhari Bazar. Jaipur enjoys a high reputation for
the manufacture of jewellery. It is one of the most active jewel markets of
the world and is famous for precious and semi-precious stones and also for the
cutting, polishing and setting of these stone, particularly that of diamonds,
topaz and emeralds. Jaipur brass work is of immaculate quality. The Jaipur brass worker is successful in infusing life like charm into the dull metal. Two kinds of work is done in Jaipur on brass viz. Lacquered brass carved brass. Jaipur enamel or Minakari, mostly done on gold and silver has always been a class of its own. The Jaipur artist is renowned not nonly for the purity of the colours, but also for its evenness. Jaipur is also famous for its textiles. Sanganeri and Bagru block prints are the fashion designer's craze these days. The Bandhej (tie and dye)print is very typical of the region.
Near the Hawa Mahal are large number of shops dealing in antiques and pseudo-antiques. Some shops opposite Hawa Mahal stock the
famous
Jaipuri quilts, weighing from a few hundred grams to a kilogram. The stone and marble carving industry is also famous art of Jaipur. The stone used is either procured from within Jaipur or from the marble mines of makrana, the famous quarry that provided all the marble stone for one of the wonders of the world at Agra, the Taj Mahal. The carvings, portraits and busts created in Jaipur are held in high esteem everywhere.
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