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.
Sozni-embroidered Shawl
A plain pashmina ground worked in fine sozni needle embroidery. Five to seven months by one hand.
₹1,45,000200 × 100 cm · pashmina ground
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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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Sozni is needle work, not weaving: the pattern is embroidered into a finished pashmina ground in silk thread so fine the reverse reads almost as clean as the face. A border-only piece takes months; a fully covered jamawar can take years. We quote per design after the ground is chosen.
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
- 200 × 100 cm · pashmina ground
- Grade
- Plain twill, handloom
- Lot
- ZF-PSH-2026-001
- Availability
- 5–7 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.