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Pure Cashmere Pashmina Stole Scarf from Kashmir
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www.ShalinScarves.com
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Pashmina is an adventure of
considerable scope and daring, taking you through
a grand tour of the finest fabric known to the
world. Its subject matter is nothing less than
Indian textile history brought up to date with
the patterns and colors of present-day attire.
Pashmina, the original “Cashmere”, should not be
confused with other fabrics of the same name made
elsewhere. For the real thing can only be woven
from the soft fleece (pashm) of the neck and
underbelly of an ibex that thrives in remote
regions of the Ladakhi and Tibetan plateaux.
Around the end of the eighteenth century, Kashmir
pashmina stoles were made in three sizes – long,
narrow, and square. Forster further states that
square stoles shawls were common in the Indian
market. Long and very narrow shawls with black
colour schemes were especially made for the
Northern Asiatic market, where they were used as
girdles.
Visitors from England and France who visited the
court of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh in the nineteenth
century appreciated its shawl decoration.
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Moorcroft, who visited India in the early
nineteenth century in Kashmir, gave an elaborate
description of shawl manufacturing in Kashmir and
Amritsar. By that time several changes had
occurred. The most noteworthy centre became
Amritsar, impressing Moorcroft a lot. He observed
that the red shawl yarn used in Amritsar usually
came from Kashmir, but its export was banned to
discourage the foreign manufacture of shawls.
However, Moorcroft noticed that now the wool came
from Tibet, Bokhara, and Uzbegestan to Amritsar
and shawls were woven with a double warp and
weft, giving a fairly thick and soft texture to
the fabric. Moorcroft gives a full account of
cleaning, spinning, dyeing, weaving, work
distribution, weaving techniques, types of
shawls, woolen products, fabrics, important
technical terms, pricing, trade with different
countries and several other minutiae. |
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