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When you take a land and fill it with people who love celebrations, and whose love for colour is unparalleled, even while it is sophisticated in its simplicity, chances are you will come across a range of arts and crafts that meets with their particular needs. It isn't an unfair assumption in  case of Rajasthan. The bazaars spill with produce, and there is a magnificent glow of colours that permeates the marts and spills over to the people themselves. There is nothing that is subtle about it either. Colours dance on textiles and fabrics, glow in between gold settings, is woven into the threads of rugs and carpets: it is a bountiful celebration where the range of materials at their command is put to amazing use.

            Crafts of Rajasthan have emerged not as a decorative feature, but as essential parts of their lives. They took their utensils and gave them shapes and forms that were pleasing to the eye; they decorated their clothes so that, in the dull surroundings of the desert they could lend colour to its barrenness; they wore Jewellery and embroidered shoes; they made paintings to honour their gods and record historic events; they decorated their damascened swords with precious stones and wore amulets of gold to war.