Spilling a delightful world around us, where everything is colourful and vivid, a Kashmiri Pashmina shawl is consciously handwoven in refreshing blue for a breath of freshness in fall in winters. Featuring Kashmiri fine thread and needle embroidery, locally known as Sozni Kari, in a netted Jaali pattern, the shawl appears as a canvas where weavers and embroidery artisans paint a whirlpool of their emotions.
The raw pashmina wool for this piece was collected from herds in Ladakh in the Northern Himalayan Region. Temperatures here can reach minus 35 degrees during Winter in this cold desert region. The goats grow a fine long-haired undercoat that forms a natural heat-insulating shield against the cold. This fibre is light and warm with amazing insulating properties, the fibres are extremely fine varying between 9 - 16 microns. The cashmere chosen for this pashmina has been specially selected from the finest Grade 'A' fibres.
The spinning, weaving, dyeing, and embroidery were accomplished by skilled craftsmen in Srinagar.
