Kashmiri Shawls

Best Kashmiri Shawls Shawl Industry of Kashmir is the pioneer handicraft and has been here for times immemorial. Kashmiris have been making shawls for thousands of years owing to the cold climate and abundance of pure wool available in valley. On the eve of Mughal occupation of Kashmir, shawl industry was extensively established and achieved the highest degree of perfection. Jehangir, one of the Mughal emperors says about these shawls , " These are so excellent that there is no need to praise them".

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Raw material: There are two principal types of fabrics that are used for making shawls Pashmina, Raffel.

Pashmina: Pashmina - the word derived from Persian word meaning wool is known as

cashmere in western countries. The fiber for this extremely soft, warm and light wool is combed from the undercoat of the Goats living in the most remote areas of the Himalayan Mountain range, Nepal & Tibetan border and Ladakh region of Kashmir. Prices of shawls made of

Pashmina depend upon the quantity of pure Pashmina as it is usually blended with ordinary much Pashmina you want in your shawl - 80 % Pashmina & 20 % Wool or vice versa. the combination can be of Pashmina with Silk / Wool / Cotton / Synthetic Fabric.

wool or rabbit's hair. we have huge variety of selection to choose from. You can even order how

Kashmiri Pashmina shawls are world famous for their quality and embroidery because only

Kashmiri Pashmina shawls are embroidered. The very expensive among these are "Jamawar other Pashmina shawls Jali Shawls, Doordar Shawl, Bootidar Shawl, Neemdoor Shawl etc

shawls" which are embroidered all over, and normally take one full year or more for completion;

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being only embroidered to a lesser extent, normally the central area, sieve-like embroidery or just a strip along its borders.

Raffle is the simplest kind of the fabric that is used to make shawls in Kashmir Woolen Shawls the woolen shawls depends upon the type of wool used embroidery. Kashmiri wool, known as raffel, is is quite unique to the valley. Pashmina Shawls shawls are adorned with exquisite embroidery and are embroidery done on the Pashmina shawls needlework in a panel on the and Kashmiri Pashmina shawl is one of the most popular shopping items of extremely soft. The main types of the state. The The woolen shawls of Kashmir have beautiful embroidery work done on and the fineness of the them. The price of

100 percent pure and the embroidery done

on either side along the breadth of a shawl or covers the entire consist of flowers and leaves outlined in flower design for its motifs.

flowers as motifs. Papier-mache and needlework is done either in broad

sides of the shawl, uses abstract designs or stylized paisleys surface of a shawl. Motifs panels

are sozni, papier-mache and aari. Sozni,

black. Aari is hook embroidery that makes use of

Shahtoosh Shawls It is found in the plateau of Tibet and the 5,000 m. Shahtoosh Shahtoosh shawls are made from the hair of the Tibetan antelope eastern part of Ladakh, at an altitude of above (Pantholops Hodgsoni).

from shahtoosh yarn alone, or mixed with pashmina. Within also, there are many qualities. Shahtoosh embroidery on them.

expensive, because of the scarcity of the raw material. The shawls may

shawls are extremely light, soft and warm. These shawls are awfully the pure shahtoosh shawls

be pure, made

shawls are rarely dyed and have little

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