Agra Shopping

Other crafts you will find in Agra are beautiful embroidery work and carpets/rugs, brassware, leatherware and jewellery. Better quality goods are best bought at the Government Emporia or the U.P. Tourism souvenir shops.

Other than the Government Emporiums there are other places to check out such as the Sadar Bazaar, Raja-ki-Mandi, Kinari Bazaar and Munro Road. There is also the Shilpagram crafts village who sell marble items direct by the artists.

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The best way to check for an item being of marble rather than stone or anything else is the opaqueness which allows light to pass through. You will find many sellers on roadside stalls passing off marbleware when in fact it is not.

If you just want a souvenir, then there are marble replica’s of the Taj Mahal which are created with great accuracy and detail. Otherwise there is anything from a trinket box to large table tops to choose from. Be warned, they are not cheap.

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Agra is renowned for its marble tabletops, vases and trays, inlaid with semi-precious stones in ornate floral designs, in imitation of those found in the Taj Mahal.

There are several large emporiums such as the official-sounding Cottage Industries Exposition on the Fatehabad Road, which is well presented but outrageously expensive; it is one of the places you're likely to be taken to by a commission-seeking driver/ guide, and that's what happened to my group.

What to pay: For peopie with DEEP POCKET.

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Petha has been Indian favourite for centuries for its sublime flavor. This innocuous pumpkin like vegetable has been transformed into a gourmet's fantacy in the famous crystalline and trunslucent form of sweetttttt.I tried it once and still fantacizing its taste. Didnt succeed to find it in many states of the country, and regreted not buying 5 boxes of it.

Termed as Kushmand in ancient Ayurveda, Petha is believed to have remarkable curative properties, Wholesome and nutritive. It is known to act like a blood coagulant and is used in treatment of peptic ulcers and obesity

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Agra's Zardoji is very unique art of embroidery in three dimension's. The artist first makes free hand sketches of this subjects. Then he embroiders in cotton threads over and over till he gets the required thickness and movements. Finally the artists takes fibre from silk threads, twists then together in the shades required for and embroiders with them the particular piece. In the process he creates original unparallel work of art.

Agra in Uttar Pradesh is one of the old carpet centers of the Mughal days. It produces both the traditional as well as the new designs. The weaving is done under the "calling out" system in which the master weaver follows the design and keeps calling out to the weavers the colors to be used for each knot. Among the oriental design carpets made, the Indo-Ispahan and Indo- Kashan are alike except that the former has the long leaf and the latter the small leaf and flower.

What to buy: Carpets