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Bandamar 'Paisley" design embroidered shawl
This shawl is named Badamdar and is made from 100% wool by Kashmirloom. It has been hand embroidered in Kashmir over the whole body of the shawl in a paisley design in silk thread. This is a richly worked textile or great beauty and excellent craftsmanship.

Kashmirloom is a young, dynamic company created by Jenny Housego and her Kashmiri partners, brothers Hamid, Zahid, and Asaf Ali, and their family in Srinagar Kashmir.

Jenny is an English textile historian, at one time a member of the Textile Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She has lived in Delhi for the past twenty years, and spends much of her time in Kashmir, working with her partners and their talented team of craftsmen.

Infusing new life into the famous Kashmir shawl- making tradition, they produce a unique collection of Lena cashmere and fine Kashmir wool stoles, scarves and throws. In subtle textures and softly harmonizing colours, the team and its crafts people have achieved superb examples of contemporary fashion. Kashmir understands the spinning and weaving of high quality wools like nowhere else in the world. The company develops designs and weaves in its own workshops in Kashmir.

This shawl has been hand embroidered in Kashmir over the whole body of the shawl in a paisley design in silk thread. This is a richly worked textile or great beauty and excellent craftsmanship.

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Bandamar 'Paisley" design embroidered shawl

Cashmere shawl with coloured and embroidred design
This shawl is named Check Booti and is made from 100% hand woven and hand embroidred cashmere buy Kahmirloom. This shawl has very fine silk embroidery hand owrked over the full body of the shawl.

True pashmina is another word for the yarn cashmere. Pashmina wool is the softer hair located at the root of the longer hairfrom the changra goat. Each goat produces less than 100 grams of wool fiber. A fine pashmina would require the annual growth of at least three goats to weave one shawl as only a small part at the root of each hair is soft enough to be true pashmina. In spring, nomad herders lovingly comb out the fleece by hand. This is then brought to Kashmir to be carded and spun by hand and woven on traditional hand-looms. This gossamer yarn is too delicate to be treated by any machine. No wonder, then, that it is expensive. What else could it be, when so much skill and time have gone into making a shawl?

All phases of producing pashmina like removing the goats hair, sorting, spinning, weaving, dyeing are done by hand and the scarce availability of pure pashmina make the cost of pure pashmina shawls quite expensive. Pure pashmina is unmistakable for its softness, negligible weight and warmth.

This is a highly skilled profession that remains even today deeply steeped in the Kashmiri Sufi tradition. It can take several years to produce just one piece. Embroidery becomes a form of meditation; of focused attention to the meticulous standards imposed by the art in which every tiny stitch is part of a jewel-like mosaic.

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Cashmere shawl with coloured and embroidred design

Cashmere shawl with fine embroidered border
This shawl is named Border and is made from 100% cashmere. It is hand spun and is extremely soft. A dense embroidered panel has been embroidered around the edges of the shawl.

True pashmina is another word for the yarn cashmere. Pashmina wool is the softer hair located at the root of the longer hairfrom the changra goat. Each goat produces less than 100 grams of wool fiber. A fine pashmina would require the annual growth of at least three goats to weave one shawl as only a small part at the root of each hair is soft enough to be true pashmina. In spring, nomad herders lovingly comb out the fleece by hand. This is then brought to Kashmir to be carded and spun by hand and woven on traditional hand-looms. This gossamer yarn is too delicate to be treated by any machine. No wonder, then, that it is expensive. What else could it be, when so much skill and time have gone into making a shawl?

All phases of producing pashmina like removing the goats hair, sorting, spinning, weaving, dyeing are done by hand and the scarce availability of pure pashmina make the cost of pure pashmina shawls quite expensive. Pure pashmina is unmistakable for its softness, negligible weight and warmth.

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Cashmere shawl with fine embroidered border

Gorgeous green cashmere embroidered shawl
This shawl is named Neem Jama and is made from 100% hand spun and hand woven cashmere by Kashmirloom. The shawl is fully emboidered in silk thread . It is signed by the embroiderer who woul have spent one year completing the embroidery.

This is an heirloom textile and is exquistie in its finess and execution.

True pashmina is another word for the yarn cashmere. Pashmina wool is the softer hair located at the root of the longer hairfrom the changra goat. Each goat produces less than 100 grams of wool fiber. A fine pashmina would require the annual growth of at least three goats to weave one shawl as only a small part at the root of each hair is soft enough to be true pashmina. In spring, nomad herders lovingly comb out the fleece by hand. This is then brought to Kashmir to be carded and spun by hand and woven on traditional hand-looms. This gossamer yarn is too delicate to be treated by any machine. No wonder, then, that it is expensive. What else could it be, when so much skill and time have gone into making a shawl?

All phases of producing pashmina like removing the goats hair, sorting, spinning, weaving, dyeing are done by hand and the scarce availability of pure pashmina make the cost of pure pashmina shawls quite expensive. Pure pashmina is unmistakable for its softness, negligible weight and warmth.

This is a highly skilled profession that remains even today deeply steeped in the Kashmiri Sufi tradition. It can take several years to produce just one piece. Embroidery becomes a form of meditation; of focused attention to the meticulous standards imposed by the art in which every tiny stitch is part of a jewel-like mosaic.

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Gorgeous green cashmere embroidered shawl

Hand Embroidered Sammi Quilt from Pakistan
Hand embroidered by the Sammi snake charmers community of Sindh in South Pakistan. Used as bedding on cold desert nights. These quilts were traditionally made from pieced and reused fabric such as men's clothing (Khurta Pyjamas). This particular example is one of the last of its kind as these days the quilts are mass produced from new synthetic fabrics and not as extensively stitched. Circa 1960-70

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Hand Embroidered Sammi Quilt from Pakistan

Kani Tapestry Woven Pashmina Cashmere Shawl
This shawl is named Kani Jama Allover and is made from pure cashmere yarn .

Kani is the name given to a very fine twill tapestry technique where the pattern is woven as a part of the shawl. Due to the intricate skills required it could take several years to produce just one piece. Kani shawls are thus unique and very desirable as only a few master craftsmen are capable of this delicate work. Kanis are small eyeless bobbins used instead of the shuttle. The weave is a 2/2 twill, and there is double interlocking of weft, each colour appears where it is required.
Kashmirloom is re-creating some of the glories of the past, a past of which Kashmir can be justifiably proud.

True pashmina is another word for the yarn cashmere. Pashmina wool is the softer hair located at the root of the longer hairfrom the changra goat. Each goat produces less than 100 grams of wool fiber. A fine pashmina would require the annual growth of at least three goats to weave one shawl as only a small part at the root of each hair is soft enough to be true pashmina. In spring, nomad herders lovingly comb out the fleece by hand. This is then brought to Kashmir to be carded and spun by hand and woven on traditional hand-looms. This gossamer yarn is too delicate to be treated by any machine. No wonder, then, that it is expensive. What else could it be, when so much skill and time have gone into making a shawl?

All phases of producing pashmina like removing the goats hair, sorting, spinning, weaving, dyeing are done by hand and the scarce availability of pure pashmina make the cost of pure pashmina shawls quite expensive. Pure pashmina is unmistakable for its softness, negligible weight and warmth.

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Kani Tapestry Woven Pashmina Cashmere Shawl

Kani Tapestry Woven Pashmina Cashmere Shawl
This shawl is named Kani Jama and is made from pure hand spun cashmere yarn .

Kani is the name given to a very fine twill tapestry technique where the pattern is woven as a part of the shawl. Due to the intricate skills required it could take several years to produce just one piece. Kani shawls are thus unique and very desirable as only a few master craftsmen are capable of this delicate work. Kanis are small eyeless bobbins used instead of the shuttle. The weave is a 2/2 twill, and there is double interlocking of weft, each colour appears where it is required.
Kashmirloom is re-creating some of the glories of the past, a past of which Kashmir can be justifiably proud.

True pashmina is another word for the yarn cashmere. Pashmina wool is the softer hair located at the root of the longer hairfrom the changra goat. Each goat produces less than 100 grams of wool fiber. A fine pashmina would require the annual growth of at least three goats to weave one shawl as only a small part at the root of each hair is soft enough to be true pashmina. In spring, nomad herders lovingly comb out the fleece by hand. This is then brought to Kashmir to be carded and spun by hand and woven on traditional hand-looms. This gossamer yarn is too delicate to be treated by any machine. No wonder, then, that it is expensive. What else could it be, when so much skill and time have gone into making a shawl?

All phases of producing pashmina like removing the goats hair, sorting, spinning, weaving, dyeing are done by hand and the scarce availability of pure pashmina make the cost of pure pashmina shawls quite expensive. Pure pashmina is unmistakable for its softness, negligible weight and warmth.

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Kani Tapestry Woven Pashmina Cashmere Shawl

Lustrous cahsmere shawl with silver
This shawl is named Dorukha Stripes and is made from 100% cashmere with superfine silver metal threads woven through it to create a shimmering surface.

This would be beautiful for a wedding shawl

True pashmina is another word for the yarn cashmere. Pashmina wool is the softer hair located at the root of the longer hairfrom the changra goat. Each goat produces less than 100 grams of wool fiber. A fine pashmina would require the annual growth of at least three goats to weave one shawl as only a small part at the root of each hair is soft enough to be true pashmina. In spring, nomad herders lovingly comb out the fleece by hand. This is then brought to Kashmir to be carded and spun by hand and woven on traditional hand-looms. This gossamer yarn is too delicate to be treated by any machine. No wonder, then, that it is expensive. What else could it be, when so much skill and time have gone into making a shawl?

All phases of producing pashmina like removing the goats hair, sorting, spinning, weaving, dyeing are done by hand and the scarce availability of pure pashmina make the cost of pure pashmina shawls quite expensive. Pure pashmina is unmistakable for its softness, negligible weight and warmth.

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Lustrous cahsmere shawl with silver

Steel grey cashmere shawl with hand embroidered miniature flowers
This shawl is named Neem Jama and is made from 100% hand spun and hand woven cashmere by Kashmirloom. The shawl is fully emboidered in silk thread . It is signed by the embroiderer who would have spent one year completing the embroidery.

This is an heirloom textile and is exquistie in its finess and execution.

True pashmina is another word for the yarn cashmere. Pashmina wool is the softer hair located at the root of the longer hairfrom the changra goat. Each goat produces less than 100 grams of wool fiber. A fine pashmina would require the annual growth of at least three goats to weave one shawl as only a small part at the root of each hair is soft enough to be true pashmina. In spring, nomad herders lovingly comb out the fleece by hand. This is then brought to Kashmir to be carded and spun by hand and woven on traditional hand-looms. This gossamer yarn is too delicate to be treated by any machine. No wonder, then, that it is expensive. What else could it be, when so much skill and time have gone into making a shawl?

All phases of producing pashmina like removing the goats hair, sorting, spinning, weaving, dyeing are done by hand and the scarce availability of pure pashmina make the cost of pure pashmina shawls quite expensive. Pure pashmina is unmistakable for its softness, negligible weight and warmth.

This is a highly skilled profession that remains even today deeply steeped in the Kashmiri Sufi tradition. It can take several years to produce just one piece. Embroidery becomes a form of meditation; of focused attention to the meticulous standards imposed by the art in which every tiny stitch is part of a jewel-like mosaic.

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Steel grey cashmere shawl with hand embroidered miniature flowers

Supersoft cashmere shawl with striped border
This shawl is named New Abid Band and is made by Kashmirloom from 100% hand spun and handwoven cashmere.

True pashmina is another word for the yarn cashmere. Pashmina wool is the softer hair located at the root of the longer hairfrom the changra goat. Each goat produces less than 100 grams of wool fiber. A fine pashmina would require the annual growth of at least three goats to weave one shawl as only a small part at the root of each hair is soft enough to be true pashmina. In spring, nomad herders lovingly comb out the fleece by hand. This is then brought to Kashmir to be carded and spun by hand and woven on traditional hand-looms. This gossamer yarn is too delicate to be treated by any machine. No wonder, then, that it is expensive. What else could it be, when so much skill and time have gone into making a shawl?

All phases of producing pashmina like removing the goats hair, sorting, spinning, weaving, dyeing are done by hand and the scarce availability of pure pashmina make the cost of pure pashmina shawls quite expensive. Pure pashmina is unmistakable for its softness, negligible weight and warmth.

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Supersoft cashmere shawl with striped border

Supersoft cashmere with fine embroidered border
This shawl is named HF-Hashicar and is made from 100% hand spun and hand woven cashmere by Kashmirloom. This shawl is so soft that you will never want to take it off. The embroidered border is very finely crafted.

True pashmina is another word for the yarn cashmere. Pashmina wool is the softer hair located at the root of the longer hairfrom the changra goat. Each goat produces less than 100 grams of wool fiber. A fine pashmina would require the annual growth of at least three goats to weave one shawl as only a small part at the root of each hair is soft enough to be true pashmina. In spring, nomad herders lovingly comb out the fleece by hand. This is then brought to Kashmir to be carded and spun by hand and woven on traditional hand-looms. This gossamer yarn is too delicate to be treated by any machine. No wonder, then, that it is expensive. What else could it be, when so much skill and time have gone into making a shawl?

All phases of producing pashmina like removing the goats hair, sorting, spinning, weaving, dyeing are done by hand and the scarce availability of pure pashmina make the cost of pure pashmina shawls quite expensive. Pure pashmina is unmistakable for its softness, negligible weight and warmth.

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Supersoft cashmere with fine embroidered border

Embroidered panel from Gujarat
Colourful ceremonial embroidered panel from Gujurat, India. Decorated with flowers and mirrors. Hand embroidered with silk and cotton thread on a cotton groud fabric.

Could be used as wall hanging or table cover. Would look great mounted on a silk covered stretcher or framed.

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Embroidered panel from Gujarat

Pair of Toran
Pair of 'toran' , colourful embroidered door hanging from Gujurat, India. Decorated with star shapes and mirrors. Hand embroidered with silk and cotton thread on a cotton groud fabric. hand tie dye fabrics incorporated with hand embroidered designs

Could be used as they are traditionally as over door hangings or would look great framed as an art piece

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Embroidered panel from Gujarat
Colourful ceremonial embroidered panel from Gujurat, India. Decorated with flowers and mirrors. Hand embroidered with silk and cotton thread on a cotton groud fabric.

Could be used as wall hanging or table cover

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Embroidered panel from Gujarat

Indian Child's dress
This child's dress from Gujarat in India is hand embroidered and incorporates mirror work. the body of the dress is traditional silk striped fabric. The detail of the embroidery includes traditional motifs.

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Indian Child's dress

Hand embroidered skirt panel from Gujarat
This skirt panel is embellished with hand embroidery in a variety of stitches in cotton thread on a hand woven cotton ground fabric. Mirror work is incorporated in the embroidery. The fabric was once a skirt and has been unpicked. There is evidence of gathering and stitched at the top edge. It dates from the 1960's.

This panel woould look wonderful mounted on a stretcher and used as a long wall hanging.

The hanging depicts traditionali mages including the green parrots of Gujarat

There is some staining in the top section

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Hand embroidered skirt panel from Gujarat

Embroidered panel from Gujarat
Colourful ceremonial embroidered panel from Gujurat, India. Decorated with flowers and mirrors. Hand embroidered with silk and cotton thread on a cotton groud fabric.

Could be used as wall hanging or table cover. Would look great mounted on a silk covered stretcher or framed.

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Embroidered panel from Gujarat

Vibrant Embroidered Panel from Gujarat
Colourful ceremonial wall hanging from Gujurat, India. Decorated with flowers and mirrors. Hand embroidered with silk and cotton thread on a cotton ground fabric.

Could be used as wall hanging or table cover

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Vibrant Embroidered Panel from Gujarat

Envelope Pouch with cord wrap
Hand embroidered cotton envelope pouch from Gujarat, India. The bag is hand embroidered in silk thread and some incorporate small mirrors. The lining of these bags is made from hand blockprinted cotton in most cases. The corners of the bag or beaded

Purchasing this bag will help rural communities in western Gujarat.

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Envelope Pouch with cord wrap

Floral Embroidered Panel from Gujarat
Colourful ceremonial embroidered panel from Gujurat, India. Decorated with flowers and mirrors. Hand embroidered with silk and cotton thread on a cotton groud fabric.

Could be used as wall hanging or table cover

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Floral Embroidered Panel from Gujarat

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