Journal
A journey to learn about the wonderfully soft wool known as Cashmere. Pashmina locally known as Lena Cashmere comes from a particular type of goat called Changra that lives in the high altitude regions of Ladakh in northern India and...
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The early history of shawl weaving in Kashmir remains obscure, some scholars believe that the craft came from outside the region – that it was brought in from Iran by Syed Ali Hamdani and Badshah Zain-ul-Abidin in the fourteenth century....
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It is sometimes hard to imagine that a goat foraging on the desert-like terrain of Changthang can lead to the creation of one of the most exquisite and finest of the world’s textiles – the Kashmir Shawl.  In the words...
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