Hi Friends, I bought some beautiful jewelery from my recent trip to Jaipur. In the process, I came across some fascinating facts, which I'd like to share with you all.
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Rajasthan is rich in jewellery, each area having it's own unique style. Some of the traditional design are rakhri, bala, bajuband, gajra, gokhru, jod, etc. tribal women wear heavy, simply crafted silver jewelry .
Men also wear ornaments in the form of chockers and earrings. Jaipur is famous expert centre for precious and semi-precious gem stones. Rajasthan excels in a wide range of ornaments-using Emerald, Daimond, Pearls, Garnet, Agate, etc. made especially in Jaipur and Jodhpur.
Meenakari is the art of enamelling on gold or silver and is done in Jaipur using the raised-field style. Kundan is the art of setting precious stones in gold. There is a large variety of bangles in Rajasthan. Consequently, all manner of precious and semi-precious stones can be purchased in Rajasthan.
Thanks a lot for this great info. I'm a great fan of Rajasthani jewellery, especially the Meenakari ones. I believe they are worth a treasure. Can you please tell us more about it. Is it a predominant industry in Rajasthan and which part of Rajasthan are they made?
Jewelry with Meena is a special category of Rajasthani Jewelry. Meena means enameling work. Gold and silver Jewelries are enameled to enhance beauty of the same. Jewelers produce variety of Jewelry with enamel in different places of the world. Indian enameling work is entirely different from those of France or Turkey. In IndiaKundanJadau and Meena Jewelry, generally, enameling work is done in the backside and it is called ek posta meena. Sometimes, it is in the front side too and then it is called do posta. The artisans engrave beautiful flowers, leaves, birds and animals in the gold plate and then enamel the same .
Jaipur, Bikaner and Sardarshahar are the main places in Rajasthan for Meenakari work.
thanks for these info posted dear,i really love the meenakari works.
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Wow loveleen, those are really beautiful! Thanks for sharing. Do you know a good place where we can get Rajasthani Jewellery in Delhi? I mean authentic ones.
You can find some rajasthani jewellery in these places...
Art and Handicraft Library Suppliers of contemporary rajasthani painting, decorative rajasthani painting, rajasthani wall painting and other products such as rajasthani jewellery, thewa jewellery, marble artifacts, safas, turbans, wooden jewellery boxes etc.
Address: K 108-109, Laxmi Nagar, New Delhi, Delhi - 110 001, India
Rajasthan Jewellers WZ-628,Shop 23, Palam Colony,
New Delhi-45
Tel:+91-11- 25084552
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