Pashmina is type of Cashmere Wool

Pashmina is type of cashmere wool. This is particularly the best quality shawls are made of pashm or pashmina a symbol of luxury and elegance, pashmina has always been the love and desire of women all around the world. Only women can explain the worth and excellence of pashmina shawls. The warmth and softness of this shawls can’t be compare with any other shawls. When you see beauty, you create beauty.

The name pashmina has been derived from a Persian word ‘pashm’ meaning a weavable fibre. The pashmina wool comes from a special breed of Kashmiri goats. A good Pashminashawl requires an expert hand for spinning, weaving and creating embroidery. The needle work shawls made from pashmina wool which is embroidered almost all over with the needle. The main colour of pashmina shawls are yellow, white, black, blue, green, purple, crimson and scarlet. The stitch used for this is at an angle overlapping darn stitch, which is use to outline of shawls to make it more attractive. The thread use for work is woollen or silk thread. 

Pashmina shawls are highly fine quality shawls crafted from very fine silk. A pure pashmina can identified by testing the softness and warmth of shawl and also by its colour. From its origin pashmina shawls has exported to united states and Europe. The best pashmina shawls have a natural cream colour.

A best quality pashmina shawl range from 7000-12000 INR. These shawls comes in variety, colour and best design according to the monetary value. Its evergreen fashion accessory that’s look good in every style and never can loose its charm. Whether its your workplace or you are in party, pashmina shawl is the best way to enhance your personality.

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Kashmir San Francisco: Indian Kashmiri Shawls

 Kashmir is India's northernmost state. The Kashmir shawl that evolved from a local expertise had greater fame than any other Indian textile. A Indian Kashmiri Shawls which is a simple item of clothing, loosely worn over the shoulders, upper body and arms, and sometimes also over the head to cover and keep warmth the upper part of body. It is usually a rectangular or square piece of clothes, that is often folded to make a triangle but can also be triangular in shape.

Shawls are used in order to keep warm our body and complement as a fashionable clothes. For outdoor or indoor evening affairs, shawls are use to as warmth purpose and to keep warmth the women in dresses and where a jacket might be inappropriate to wear.

Types of Indian Kashmiri Shawls: There are some types of kashmir shawls shown below:

·         Pashmina and Amilikar: This is particularly the best quality shawls and are made of Pashm or Pashmina. The wool is of Capra hircus, a species of the wild Asian mountain goat. The needle worked amilikar shawl made from Pashmina wool which is embroidered almost all over with the needle. The main colour of pashmina shawls are yellow, white, black, blue, green, purple, crimson and scarlet. The stitch used for this is at an angle overlapping darn stitch, which is use to outline of shawls to make it more attractive .The thread use for it of woollen or silk thread.

·         Do- Shalla: Do-Shalla as the name designated the two shawls, which is always sold in pairs. This shawls is always comes with patchwork. The patterns are woven on the looms in long strips, about twelve to eighteen inches in length and from one half to two inches in width.

·         Knit Shawls: These shawls are usually knitted from the neck down, and it may not be symmetric. This shawls are usually shoulder shaping.

 ·         Stole: A stole is women’s shawl. Usually use as a party purpose, a very fine quality fabric used around the shawls which gives a royal look.  A stall is narrow in shape and of simpler construction, being a length of a quality material, wrapped and carried about the shoulders or arms. The lighter material is used for the stall such as silk and chiffon.

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