Pashmina Weaving
Sozni Stole, ivory
₹86,000
Needle embroidery so fine the reverse is nearly as clean as the face. Seven months of work by a single hand.
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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.