Stone Craft on White Marble

Jaipur holds the pride of place for availability of marble articles. The traditional religious images form the major products and several new items of contemporary use are also made, such as tea & dinner sets, bowls with glasses & many tabletop items etc.

 

Rajasthan has to its credit varied composition and colours of stones and marble. Makarana city is famous for its quality marble. It is practically all-purpose and is used for making religious images, roofing, flooring, staircases, platforms, tombstones, furniture and show-pieces or tableware. The white marble is known as 'sang-e-mal mal'.

Marble is also available in many colours, ranging from gentle rose and salmon pink to soft green, from old gold to blazing saffron, from shy lemon to chaste white. The green spotted copper coloured tamrastone found in Sawai Madhopur is used in many images. Dungrapur has a soft shaped stone, which because of its pliability is used as a substitute for alabaster.

Marble Carvings/ Paintings

Marble from Rajasthan has been used for construction of famous monuments like the Taj Mahal. Marble objects range from marble Cup-Plates to boxes and animal figures. These marble objects are painted with real gold and silver polish.