SRINAGAR: When the Qatar government placed an order for 70,000 Kashmiri pashmina shawls with FIFA logo on them, to be delivered at short notice, the officials were not expecting to receive the ...

We've all heard of Kashmiri Pashmina shawls, which are spun, woven and embroidered by hand and are the lightest and softest, yet warmest of woollen weaves. We also know that Pashmina is expensive. In ...

A Kashmiri shawl weaver in Srinagar; and a 'dorukha' - or reversible - Kashmiri Pashmina. (Image credits: Zatara Iqbal and Jaina Mishra, respectively, via Wikimedia Commons 4.0) For the past three ...

It is that time of the year when the rustle of silk and the snug warmth of pashm or pashmina’s silky skeins wind their magic around my heart in threads of softness. It is a lure that is aesthetic as ...

From fashion designers to Kashmiri shawl sellers, experts emphasise examining a pashmina shawl on the basis of texture, weight and warmth ...

The term “pashmina” is often used interchangeably with “cashmere,” but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat—one indigenous to ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Fashion news every morning. On 5 August last year, I was finalising the itinerary for my upcoming trip to Kashmir. The same day, the ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi rolled out more than just diplomatic pleasantries during UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed ...

Breaking from the tradition, Ruhi Jan, in her 40s, an artisan from Srinagar’s Zaina Kadal, awaits a special bus service around 9.30 a.m. every day to travel seven kilometres to reach the Zaevyul, a ...

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 ...