Made by
Fayaz Ahmad Dar
Pashmina weaver · Nowhatta, Srinagar, Kashmir · 28 years
Weaves Changthangi pashmina on a handloom his father built in the same room.
Changthangi Handloom Shawl
Hand-spun Changthangi pashmina, woven to order on a handloom in Nowhatta, Srinagar. Roughly three weeks at the loom.
₹68,000180 g · 200 × 100 cm
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Assay record
Certificate of origin
- Fibre
- Changthangi pashmina, hand-spun
- Weave
- Plain twill, handloom
- Weaver
- Fayaz Ahmad Dar
- Loom location
- Nowhatta, Srinagar
- GI reference
- GI 46 — Kashmir Pashmina
- Lot no.
- ZF-PSH-2026-001
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Fibre combed from Changthangi goats on the Changthang plateau, hand-spun, then woven by Fayaz Ahmad Dar on a family handloom. Made to order: we commission the piece after you reserve it, so nothing sits in inventory and the weaver is paid at the start of the work.
Fayaz works with hand-spun Changthangi fibre brought down from the Changthang plateau in Ladakh. A plain shawl takes him around three weeks at the loom; a Kani-woven piece takes months, worked colour by colour with small wooden bobbins against a coded pattern called a talim. He will not weave with mill-spun yarn, which is why his output stays low and every piece is made to order.
What's inside
- Weight
- 180 g · 200 × 100 cm
- Grade
- Plain twill, handloom
- Lot
- ZF-PSH-2026-001
- Availability
- About 3 weeks at the loom
Care & use
Air the piece rather than washing it. Fold with acid-free tissue and keep it dry and out of direct light; for pashmina, dry-clean only, and rarely. Hand-made work settles with use — small irregularities are the record of the hand that made it, not a fault.