Pashmina Silk Embroidery Shawl & Stole

Pashmina shawls are the most luxurious, softest, warmest, lightest fibre shawls and stoles in the world, also known as cashmere in the west. The fine wool comes from the remote region of Tibet. It is hand-woven by skilled Kashmir craftsmen in to wonderful shawls. Pashmina yarn is spun from the hair of the ibex found in the highlands of Ladakh, at 14,000 ft above sea level. Although pure pashmina is expensive, the cost is sometimes brought down by blending it with rabbit fur or with wool. It is on pashmina shawls that Kashmir's most exquisite embroidery is executed, sometimes covering the entire surface, earning it the name of 'jamawar'. A Jamawar shawl can, by virtue of the embroidery, increase the value of a shawl threefold. Shahtoosh, from which the legendary 'ring shawl' is made, is incredibly light, soft and warm.Each shawl takes many days to complete. It goes to several processes through hand weaving, dyeing and finishing. So every shawl is unique. The finest form of hand embroidery called needlework is done by the skilled artisans taking months to make one shawl, captivating the beauty of the Kashmir into the shawl to see the beautiful world realising his dream to see the world. Its taking months to create an expensive embroidery needle which two pieces can never be duplicated, is finally adorned the pashminas.Pure pashmina is a rather gauzy, open weave, as the fibre cannot tolerate high tension. The most popular pashmina fabric is a 70% pashmina/30% silk blend, but 50/50 is also common. The 70/30 is tightly woven, has an elegant sheen and drapes nicely, but is still quite soft and light-weight.

The Shawl is made of Pashmina Wool(70%) and Silk (30%) with Silk thread Embroidery.