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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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