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 Pashmin Making Process

Nepal is also known for its finely woven pashmina products. Pashmina productsl is an indigenous and unique product of Nepal. It is hand-made from the wool sheared off from mountain goats that are found in the Himalayan regions.Most of the skins come from high altitudes of 9000 to 11000 feet above sea level. Depending on their preference skins are usually of four colors gray, white, black, and cream. The pashmina making process undergo pain staking process done completely by hand.

The pashmina wool is collected every spring from the Mountain goat. Pashmina is the goat's soft underbelly down, which lies under the coarse outer hair. Each goat produces only about 3 ounces or 90 grams of Pashmina wool each year. One woven Pashmina shawl requires the wool from three goats. , and is basically spun by hand. The yarn is spun on a spinning wheel locally known as ‘Charkha’. Hand-spinning is an extremely painstaking task. It requires immense patience, dexterity and dedication.

Pashmina yarn is too fragile for the vibration caused by power looms, the weaving of the traditional 100% Pashmina shawls are therefore done on handlooms. The weaving process is in itself an art, which has been passed down over generations, to give you the fabulous pashmina shawls.

The making of the distinctive Pashmina fringe is perhaps one of the most interesting stages of shawl making. It takes hours to fringe each Pashmina shawl.

Dyeing is also done by hand. Dyers with immense patience and generations of experience are the ones who dye the Pashmina shawls, as even the smallest negligence reflects on the quality of the product. Only natural dyes are used, making the shawls completely eco-friendly.

The entire process of manufacturing Pashmina products like pashmina shawls, pashmina sweaters pashmina muffler and pashmina blanket etc. are similar.

 
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