Notes from the Valley
The Word That Remembers the Comb: What Pashmina...
Pashmina means "made of pashm", and pashm goes back to an ancient word for combing. Where the word comes from, how this craft gave English "shawl", "cashmere" and "paisley", and...
The Word That Remembers the Comb: What Pashmina...
Pashmina means "made of pashm", and pashm goes back to an ancient word for combing. Where the word comes from, how this craft gave English "shawl", "cashmere" and "paisley", and...
From Down to Thread: How the Finest Pashmina Is...
A pure pashmina shawl weighs almost nothing. We filmed the hands that make that possible: combing the raw down, drawing it into a thread finer than a machine can manage,...
From Down to Thread: How the Finest Pashmina Is...
A pure pashmina shawl weighs almost nothing. We filmed the hands that make that possible: combing the raw down, drawing it into a thread finer than a machine can manage,...
Why a Pashmina Shawl Is Treated Like Jewellery:...
A wedding dress is worn once. A pashmina shawl is worn for decades and then passed down. Why pashmina is treated like jewellery, which shawl suits the bride and which...
Why a Pashmina Shawl Is Treated Like Jewellery:...
A wedding dress is worn once. A pashmina shawl is worn for decades and then passed down. Why pashmina is treated like jewellery, which shawl suits the bride and which...
Sozni by a British Window: Notes From a Shawl T...
A first-person look at Sozni embroidery from the founder's own frame: an undyed pashmina shawl worked stitch by stitch through a British summer, what the neat reverse side of good...
Sozni by a British Window: Notes From a Shawl T...
A first-person look at Sozni embroidery from the founder's own frame: an undyed pashmina shawl worked stitch by stitch through a British summer, what the neat reverse side of good...
What Is Aari Pashmina? The Finest Down in the W...
Aari is what Kashmiri artisans call true Pashmina — the finest grade of all cashmere, combed from the underside down of the Changthangi goat high on the Changthang plateau. Here...
What Is Aari Pashmina? The Finest Down in the W...
Aari is what Kashmiri artisans call true Pashmina — the finest grade of all cashmere, combed from the underside down of the Changthangi goat high on the Changthang plateau. Here...