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Woollen Shawls with the Fine Pashmina yarn are handwoven also in the villages of Uttaranchal and Himachal Pradesh with exciting experimentation in natural dyes which give a whole new range of hitherto unavailable colors. Villagers delve back into tradition, and often long-forgotten knowledge, to extract colors from walnut bark, indigo, turmeric and madder, which take on a different hue depending on the quality of the water in which it is dyed or the quality of the woollen yarn with which it is woven. In an age of monotonous and mechanised replication, the world of handmade, natural-dyed textiles offers a welcome non-standardised exclusivity. Local yarn, fine Pashmina yarn and fusion with silk or cotton yarn also adds a new range of textures and weights to such fabric. In Ladakh, the high-altitude starkness is brushed over with subtle colors. The changing sunlight brings out the nuances of various shades from slate grey to deep russet, light camel brown, gentle pinks of the sunset and the purple rust of the fading day. Green crops, mustard fields and indigo blue skies reinforce the unsurpassable grandeur of Nature’s handiwork. Here exists a little known tradition of dyeing handwoven woollen cloth with natural dyes. It is said that the robes worn by monks in Buddhist Ladakh were dyed in deep maroon red with madder (locally known as tsot) and also used to color the ceremonial dress of a bride. Cows’ urine was used to develop the colour of indigo (locally called rbums) and shades were teased out of the chimney soot, the bark of an apple tree, walnut peel, the extract of leaves of wilk roses and the colours that emerged from boiling a local fodder grass, called snyalo. The cream coloured Pashmina, woven in a texture coarser than that of Kashmir, accepts these purely natural ingredients in a variety of ways.

For most people, the word Kashmir is synonymous with the woven and embrodered shawls that have through the centuries, become a byword for elegance and luxury all over the world. But every craft, even one as sophisticated as the Kashmir Shawl, has its roots in day to day life; and though the evolution of design in shawls has been studied exhaustively, scholars have devoted little attention to the local village traditions of textile manufacture which provided the basic reservoir of skills to enable the shawl industry to develop as it did.

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The tourist’s eye view of an idyllic land of rice fields, almond blossomes and perpetual sunshine notwithstanding, winter does eventually come to the happy valley and warm clothing is, therefore, one of the necessities of life. Before the development of modern communications, far-flung village communities had ot be self-sufficient in such necessities; thus every village in the valley and its surrounding mountains or Ladakh had its two or three weavers and practically every family its own flock of sheep. Throughout the region, the rural people clohted themselves in pattu, a rough tweed-like material produced in a variety of wieghts and widths, and in winter they wrapped themselves in blankets, chadars, of a number of different designs, each characteristics of the area where it was made.
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Our information as to when silk was first introducted into India is extremely sketchy. Dr. Moti Chandra, in his learned Hindi book already quoted, takes great pains to discover when silk was first known to Indians, and some of his literary researches into this question are of considerable value. What is certain is that great scholar, Panini, mentions what must be taken to be silk; but as the date of Panini is as uncertain must be taken to be silk; but as the date of Panini is as uncertain as most things in those remote days of Sanskrit literature, all one can say is that silk may have been known, indeed probably was known, as an imported article around the 2nd century B.C.,or possible in the 3rd.


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It would be rash to surmise that the Emperor Asoka possessed more than a few pieces of it, and I believe it to be quite unrealistic to think that ladies and gentlemen could afford to buy in great quantities a material that was brought laboriously by caravans travelling across the Takla Makan Desert of Central Asia and over dangerous mountain passes above 16,000 feet high.

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Rectangular Cashmere Pashmina Wrap Clothes for Winter India Apparel. Pashmina Scarf Stole is quietly sophisticated and is perfect for woman of elegance and mystry. This is softest of all wool fabric and provides you with soothing comfort. Pashmina Scarf Stole is the essence of all that is feminine and genteel.

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