Owning a piece of pashmina or cashmere has always been a definer of luxury and some of us would hear our moms and grandmoms tell us that a pashmina shawl is the most expensive and treasured part of ...

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 ...

GRACE VALLEY: In his two-room wooden house high in the beautiful Grace Valley in Kashmir, Hidayat Ullah weaves at a manual paddle loom. Asked how he learned the craft, he gestures to a frail, wizened ...

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 ...

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, ...

There's something eternally special about heirloom pieces. For some it is the timelessness of the weave, for some the depth of its colour which grows deeper with years, while for some it is the ...

In his two-room wooden house high in the beautiful Grace Valley in Pakistani Kashmir, Hidayat Ullah weaves at a manual paddle loom. Asked how he learned the craft, he gestured to an old man coughing ...

In the freezing and windswept Changthang Plateau, nestled between the Himalayas and the Karakoram mountains, traditional goat herders practise an arduous and dying trade At an altitude of 5,100m ...

While pashmina or cashmere shawls have always remained a favourite, there is another category that is fast becoming popular among those who follow quiet luxury – it is cashmere or pashmina saris.

In his two-room wooden house high in the beautiful Grace Valley in Azad Kashmir, Hidayatullah weaves at a manual paddle loom. Asked how he learned the craft, he gestures to a frail, wizened old man ...