6 Best Places to Shop in Side Trips from Delhi, India

Established in 1845, this family-owned store is home to family heirlooms as well as Victorian-era masterpieces, such as a Peacock Throne replica and zardozi (embroidered) artworks previously displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The ground floor features a display gallery and jewelry retail space, while the second floor has customized zardozi pieces such as clutch purses and wall art. Outside, a demo area and workshops allow visitors to learn about embroidery and stonework.

For over three decades, this store has been offering handicrafts collected from around India. Among locally-sourced pieces are wooden and sandstone sculptures as well as tribal paintings. The second floor is dedicated to silver jewelry with stone work.

This family-run store has been dealing in jewelry, handicrafts, and clothing since it opened in 1974. Pick up Madhya Pradesh's famous Chanderi and Maheshwari saris here, or get the team to stitch other apparels within a couple of hours. The ground floor features a workshop for demonstrations in sandstone carving.

This three-room emporium stocks zardozi (embroidery), traditional jewelry, and marble inlay work. A large room on the upper floor is dedicated to antique-style gold and silver jewelry inlaid with precious stones. The basement doubles up as a workshop for marble inlay tables, plates, and other items.

This was the first store to revive Agra marble work in the 1960s. Ask to see some of the masterpieces in the private gallery to give you a better perspective on quality.  Visitors referred by Fodor's Travel get 15% discount.

This shop has fine, beautifully displayed crafts, including new and antique silver and gold jewelry, diamonds from a local mine, silver boxes and vases, enameled silver elephants, sandalwood carvings, small (and also very large) brass statues, Varanasi and Kashmiri carpets, papier-mâché, and silk and paper paintings.