Arts and Crafts of Rajasthan – Rajasthan Travel Guide

India is probably the most unique country for adventure seekers and art lovers. The culture is very rich, and has a extreme vast range of weather conditions and has bio mes ranging from tundra to a very hot desert lands.

Rajasthan is among the richest states in the country as far as the field of arts and crafts is concerned. May be it was a result of war-like -lifestyle of the people of Rajasthan which sharpened the artistic skills, creative sense and inspired them to create the most opulent and reaches treasures. Stone, clay, leather, wood, ivory, lac, glass, brass, silver, gold and textiles were given the most brilliant forms.Stone, clay, leather, wood, ivory, lac, glass, brass, silver, gold and textiles were given the most brilliant forms.It is the Rjasthan where we can find well made arts and crafts at very low process. There is an abundance of instinct designed items that cannot be seen anywhere else. Rajasthan is truly a shoppers paradise.Some commonly find items are wooden furniture, wood carvings, carpets, pottery, tie and die prints, jewelries and heavily embroidered clothing, Rajasthan also boast high-quality craftsmanship of traditional Indian instruments such as sitar, sarangani, dolak.

For women there was infinite variety tie and die fabrics, embroidered garments, enamel jewellery inlay ed with precious and semi-precious stones, leather jootis. They use to put those decorative items in their surrounding on the walls of their mud-huts with painted geometric design as well as simple like flowers and birds.

Rajasthan is the main dwell place of haven for the men and women who are fans of jeweleries. Being India’s important source of precious and semi precious stones such as ruby, emerald, amethyst, and topaz, it is home to a wide variety of jewelries that are top notch in design and craftsmanship. Each region made its own style of architecture. In the Urban region, where most people usually crave for valuable metal, stones are set on enameled gold or silver. They call this process of setting the stones in gold ornaments as “Kundan”where Meenakari is the art of enameling metals.Bangles are also widely produced as they are mostly favorites among the women.

Rajasthan is also famous for its wall paintings. Today synthetic colors are widely used as they are easy to prepare but many traditional partners still prefer natural paint materials such as vegetables dyes and minerals that produce a rich, vibrant and classy finish to the wall paintings. IF you want to buy the cost may vary depending on the craftsmanship of each artist. Each artist has its own way of method to follow a different process in preparing the walls and in expressing objects through color variation and expression of balance space.