Pashmina Weaving
Kani Shawl, jamawar ground
Price on request
Two years on the loom. The pattern is not printed or embroidered but woven, each colour carried by its own wooden toji across a warp of 2,400 threads.
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Pashmina Weaving · Srinagar, Kashmir
The wool comes off the Changthangi goat at 14,000 feet, and is separated by hand — the guard hair pulled out one strand at a time before anything reaches the loom. Ghulam weaves kani shawls on a handloom his father set up in 1968, using wooden tojis instead of a shuttle. A full kani shawl is two years of work. He has made eleven.