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.
