The Art of making a piece of Kundan Jadau Jewellery is difficult and time consuming. It can take upto two months for a piece to go from the drawing board to the various karigars and ultimately to the customer. "The jeweller chooses a design to be prepared by a chitera or designer".

The word Kundan in itself means 'pure gold'. While making a Kundan set it is preferred to use polkis - uncut or unprocessed diamond with Meena work. The craftsmen first make the back with 23 Karat gold and draw beautiful motifs with chisels. The depressed portion is then filled with Meena (Mixture of powered glass and chemicals). Once the back portion of the Jewellery is done, the front Kundan setting is worked upon. On gold case made, which is filled with wax.

The craftsman places precious or semi-precious stones in their appropriate places. Under each stone, they put a thin silver film, which acts as a reflector for the transparent stones, very often, instead of real stones, coloured foils are used to give the necessary effect.

The artisans place the foil on and around the stones. After continual stricking of the gold foil, a wall is formed around the stones. The craftsman then, chisels, carves and clean the Jewellery piece until the Clean shine is bought to the fore by rubbing the piece with a thin rod called mashkala.

1. Design - Chitrakari
2. Ghat - Frame making
3. Meenakari - Enamelling
4. Jadai - Stone Setting
5. Embellishment - Puai