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.
Kani Woven Stole
Woven colour by colour on small wooden bobbins against a coded talim. Around eight months at the loom.
From ₹2,10,000180 × 70 cm · Kani twill tapestry
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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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In Kani weaving the pattern is not embroidered but built into the cloth itself, each colour carried on its own wooden bobbin (kani) and placed by hand line by line, read from a talim. A weaver advances a few centimetres a day. We commission each piece and send loom photographs as the work goes on.
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 × 70 cm · Kani twill tapestry
- Grade
- Plain twill, handloom
- Lot
- ZF-PSH-2026-001
- Availability
- About 8 months
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.