I've been writing up some posts about emeralds and kit fighteing, then I got Xander's comment this morning and realized first I needed to explain the whole Pink City thing for people who don't know why it is called the Pink City.
Well, to start, Jaipur is the capital city of Rajasthan, India. Why is it called the Pink City? Well, apparently because it is. According to Rajasthan by Pauline Van Lynden (a beautiful book I've talked of before) the buildings in town are all painted in a locally produced burt sienna, called gehru. The entire city gives off a light pinkish-brown hue. Some of the buildings are trimmed in ornamental white, and they just look like beautiful pastries.
One of these pastry buildings is the Hawa Mahal or Palace of Winds. Built in 1777, the original intention of the building was for the royal ladies to be able to sit, look out and see everyday life going on without being seen. Seems a bit lonesome, but I guess that all depends.
The images above are from Vineeta Nair who writes the lovely Artnlight blog. She sent them over a few months ago when she heard I was working on a pattern for Jaipur. So nice.
1 comments:
Wow. Jennifer, thats so sweet of you to mention my blog- I've installed this widget on my blog which shows me the countries im getting traffic from & the name of the blog/site they are coming from & quite few happened to come from your site- Just for the lark I checked & you HAD writen about 'artnlight'. Im so glad I checked or I wouldn't have known! thanx a ton!
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