Jaipur is popularly known for its arts and crafts in India.
Jaipur has created and preserved a lot of crafts which includes
lovely prints, precious and semiprecious stones, Kundan Meenakari
Jewellery embroidered leather work, other hand crafted items of
wood, ivory, lac, glass, brass, silver and gold.
Jaipur's main market of Block Paintings are Sanganer and Bagru.
Sanganer is popular for its hand paper and mostly screen-printed
fabric. The fabric is popular for small floral designs. They are
available in very colorful folk designs and some very soft and
smoothing clothe, mainly used for bed linen, table covers, curtains
or home furnishing. Bagru is also famed for textile designs but
printers in Bagru use vegetable color and use more floral designs.
Another city, as Jaisalmer, known for the oldest designs, the
specialty is the wax resistant art printing, a technique that
creates some most unusual shades. The print on a Jaisalmer wedding
dress is a spectacular one, with a design of squares in red, pink
and black colours..
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