Rajasthan Part IV

On the 27th of January, we all started the day off by going to the monkey temple, there we saw many monkeys and most of us even let them sit on our shoulders.

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Today’s Sketches

After the temple, we made our way to the carpet store to see how carpets were made.

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(The patterns being block printed)        (Trimming the excess material)

Heres a link to a video on my youtube channel on how they fringe off the excess material off the floor side of the carpet to prevent the carpet from slipping:

UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_1f0b After we were shown how they were made, we were then invited upstairs so they could showcase their carpets and list out the prices for any of us who were interested in buying them.

Our last stop for the day was the pottery place, there we were shown how ceramics were done in there (e.g if the kiln goes over 90 degrees the ceramics get damaged.) after that we all looked around the shop.

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