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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