Jaipur Travel Guide
Shopping
in Jaipur
The builders of Jaipur took special care to provide ample space and facilities
for the production and marketing of hadicarfts which made the place famous throughout
India and abroad. An entire street and several city sectors were earmarked for
artisans and traders. The mainmarkets are along Jauhari Bazar, Bapu Bazar, Nehru
Bazar, Chaura Rasta, Tripolia Bazar and M.I. Raod.
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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Hello
Durjay,
I'm back at home and at work. The flight home was quite
an ordeal! First a ten-hour delay in Delhi, then a 20-hour flight to
Toronto, then a second overnight delay in Toronto before my flight to
Chicago. To top it all off, the bus I took from Chicago to Milwaukee got in
an accident on the way home. So I arrived home on Sunday afternoon instead
of Saturday at 8 a.m. as planned. But there was an empty seat next to me on
the Delhi-Toronto flight, so I got plenty of sleep. And I'm happy to be home
safe.
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