The pashmina shawl has delighted women around the world for centuries, from Emperor Napoleon’s wife Josephine to queens and princesses of the British royal family. Empress Josephine, it is said, owned ...

Pashmina is one of, if not the finest quality wool available to mankind and it is the most refined version of cashmere. But what makes the fabric so special, you ask? Not to worry though we’ve got you ...

A mix of homegrown design and luxury - that's pashmina for you. Here's our lowdown on the intricately woven fabric. Pashmina is a fine fabric of meticulous craftsmanship (Pics: Pashmina.com, shared by ...

This is my first memory of a pashmina, back from the childhood days during my maiden trip to Kashmir. I have had many such pleasant encounters with the cashmere ever since, and have even owned one, ...

"Making handmade, pure pashmina isn’t easy, and it doesn’t come cheap. Handmade pashmina is a luxury because so much effort goes into it. It’s not a five-minute job that will be done by a machine.

Pashmina weavers. Courtesy: Kashmir Looms. Kashmir’s famous Pashmina, a fine variant of spun cashmere — introduced to the valley by an Irani Sufi saint, Shah-e-Hamdan, and refined to a fine art form ...

(MENAFN- Kashmir Observer) Abdul Rasheed displaying a Kashmiri shawl in his Delhi showroom. KO Pics by Romaan Arora. In this third part of 'Kashmir in Capital' series, Kashmir Observer tells tale of ...

A new thread was added to the Indo-Pak tussle over a patent for Pashmina. At loggerheads for a while over a Geographical Indication (GI) tag for the prized wool, Pakistan said it is “open to a joint ...

Dented with dogged discord and craving for life-support for decades now, Kashmir's six-century-old Pashmina industry supporting around seven lakh people is now facing existential threat amid the ...

Pashmina was once Nepal’s top export product, right there with carpets and tea. At its peak, pashmina exports accounted for Rs5 billion in 2000 only to fall sharply to Rs1.65 billion in just ten years ...