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			{{Short description\|Type of quilt used in South Asia}}
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	'''Arzaai''' or '''Razai''' ([[Hindustani language\|Hindustani]]: रज़ाई, رزائی; [[Punjabi language\|Punjabi]]: ~~ਰਜਾਈ~~, {{Nastaliq\|رزائی}}; {{lang-bn\|রেজাই\|rezāi}}) is a bedding ([[quilt]]) very similar to, if not a type of, [[duvet]] or [[comforter]], used in [[Afghanistan]], [[Pakistan]], [[North India]], [[Bangladesh]] and [[Nepal]].<ref name="pennell1912">{{Citation \| title=Things seen in northern India \| author=Theodore Leighton Pennell \| year=1912 \| publisher=Dutton \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1KVJAAAAIAAJ \| quote=''... The other article which travellers are recommended to purchase in India is a native quilt, or "razai." This is a cotton or silk cover stuffed with cotton-wool ...''}}</ref> ''Razais'' usually have a [[cotton]], [[silk]] or [[velvet]] cover which is stuffed with [[cotton wool]].<ref name="pennell1912"/> They can provide a great deal of warmth even in the very cold weather that can occur in these regions, primarily due to the [[thermal insulation\|insulating effects]] of the large amount of air trapped in the cotton wool.<ref name="murray1924">{{Citation \| title=Murray's handbook, India, Burma & Ceylon \| year=1924 \| publisher=John Murray \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BU2tV-yRr4gC \| quote=''... which in North India may sometimes be bitterly cold. The minimum equipment is a pillow and two cotton-wadded quilts (razais), one to sleep on, and one, which should be larger, as a coverlet ...''}}</ref>		'''Arzaai''' or '''Razai''' ([[Hindustani language\|Hindustani]]: रज़ाई, رزائی; [[Punjabi language\|Punjabi]]: ਰਜ਼ਾਈ, {{Nastaliq\|رزائی}}; {{lang-bn\|রেজাই\|rezāi}}) is a bedding ([[quilt]]) very similar to, if not a type of, [[duvet]] or [[comforter]], used in [[Afghanistan]], [[Pakistan]], [[North India]], [[Bangladesh]] and [[Nepal]].<ref name="pennell1912">{{Citation \| title=Things seen in northern India \| author=Theodore Leighton Pennell \| year=1912 \| publisher=Dutton \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1KVJAAAAIAAJ \| quote=''... The other article which travellers are recommended to purchase in India is a native quilt, or "razai." This is a cotton or silk cover stuffed with cotton-wool ...''}}</ref> ''Razais'' usually have a [[cotton]], [[silk]] or [[velvet]] cover which is stuffed with [[cotton wool]].<ref name="pennell1912"/> They can provide a great deal of warmth even in the very cold weather that can occur in these regions, primarily due to the [[thermal insulation\|insulating effects]] of the large amount of air trapped in the cotton wool.<ref name="murray1924">{{Citation \| title=Murray's handbook, India, Burma & Ceylon \| year=1924 \| publisher=John Murray \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BU2tV-yRr4gC \| quote=''... which in North India may sometimes be bitterly cold. The minimum equipment is a pillow and two cotton-wadded quilts (razais), one to sleep on, and one, which should be larger, as a coverlet ...''}}</ref>

	==Maintenance==		==Maintenance==
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	==Business==		==Business==
	Many businesses have been set up to sell quilts. The quilt market is big, and culture and local customs have evolved to make quilts into an international business opportunity.		Many businesses have been set up to sell quilts. The quilt market is big, and culture and local customs have evolved to make quilts into an international business opportunity.

			Razai is famous by the name of 100gram Jaipuri Razai. Many old business of Jaipur-The Pink City sells Jaipuri Razai. Chaura Rasta being one of the hidden markets, sells most of the authentic Razai.

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{{for|the second president of Iran|Mohammad-Ali Rajai}}
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'''Arzaai''' or '''Razai''' ([[Hindustani language|Hindustani]]: रज़ाई, رزائی; [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]: ਰਜਾਈ, {{Nastaliq|رزائی}}; {{lang-bn|রেজাই|rezāi}}) is a bedding ([[quilt]]) very similar to, if not a type of, [[duvet]] or [[comforter]], used in [[Afghanistan]], [[Pakistan]], [[North India]], [[Bangladesh]] and [[Nepal]].<ref name="pennell1912">{{Citation | title=Things seen in northern India | author=Theodore Leighton Pennell | year=1912 | publisher=Dutton | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1KVJAAAAIAAJ | quote=''... The other article which travellers are recommended to purchase in India is a native quilt, or "razai." This is a cotton or silk cover stuffed with cotton-wool ...''}}</ref> ''Razais'' usually have a [[cotton]], [[silk]] or [[velvet]] cover which is stuffed with [[cotton wool]].<ref name="pennell1912"/> They can provide a great deal of warmth even in the very cold weather that can occur in these regions, primarily due to the [[thermal insulation|insulating effects]] of the large amount of air trapped in the cotton wool.<ref name="murray1924">{{Citation | title=Murray's handbook, India, Burma & Ceylon | year=1924 | publisher=John Murray | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BU2tV-yRr4gC | quote=''... which in North India may sometimes be bitterly cold. The minimum equipment is a pillow and two cotton-wadded quilts (razais), one to sleep on, and one, which should be larger, as a coverlet ...''}}</ref>

==Maintenance==
The cotton wool in a ''razai'' clumps over time, thinning the ''razai'' and driving the air out, which causes the ''razai'' to become less effective as a protection against the cold. For this reason, prior to the onset of winter weather, it is common for families to get their ''razais'' [[carding|carded]]: the cotton wool in the ''razai'' is removed, carded to eliminate the clumping, and reinserted into the ''razai''-cover.<ref name="hankin1994">{{Citation | title=Hanklyn-Janklin, or, A stranger's rumble-tumble guide to some words, customs and quiddities Indian and Indo-British | author=Nigel B. Hankin | year=1994 | publisher=Banyan Books | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rEZeAAAAIAAJ | quote=''... Each autumn the razai is unquilted and the cotton carded and fluffed ...''}}</ref> This is done by ''razai''-carders (called ''dhuniyas'' or ''dhunnas'', see the [[Australian English]] term for duvet, "[[doona]]") who are professionally adept and seasonally employed in this activity.<ref name="balfour1899">{{Citation | title=The natural history of the musical bow | author=Henry Balfour | year=1899 | publisher=Clarendon | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zM8TAAAAYAAJ | quote=''... the itinerant cotton-cleaner, dhuniya. as he goes his rounds along the streets, constantly twangs the tightly stretched string of his huge cotton-cleaning bow, dhunki, which gives out a musical note serving in lieu of a street call ...''}}</ref><ref name="eafcs1959">{{Citation | title=The Eastern anthropologist, Volume 13| year=1959 | publisher=Ethnographic and Folk-Culture Society (Lucknow, India) | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i3ALAAAAIAAJ | quote=''... The profession of cotton carding is mainly seasonal ; a Dhuniya is usually employed in his specific occupation just ... During the major part of the year a Dhuniya earns his living by other means ...''}}</ref> The bowed carding instrument, called the ''dhunki'', has a distinctive twang when it is in use or its string is plucked.<ref name="balfour1899"/> This twang is a common daytime sound in rural areas in the autumn, and is sometimes used as a cultural reference to the onset of winter in local literature and movies.

==Business==
Many businesses have been set up to sell quilts. The quilt market is big, and culture and local customs have evolved to make quilts into an international business opportunity.

==References==
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