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Restoring lost glory of Pashmina shawls

September 2, 2021
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In news– An initiative has been launched in Jammu & Kashmir to restore the lost glory of Pashmina shawls. The Centre For Excellence (CFE) has been set up by shawl trader Mujtaba Kadri, who owns the ‘Me&K’ brand and Aadyam-Aditya Birla Group to restore the lost hand-driven processes involved in the intricate shawl weaving industry. 

About Pashmina shawls-

  • Pashmina shawl is a hand-made shawl from Jammu & Kashmir.
  • It refers to a fine variant of spun cashmere, the animal-hair fibre forming the downy undercoat of the Changthangi goat.
  • The word pashm means “wool” in Persian, but in Kashmir, pashm referred to the raw unspun wool of domesticated Changthangi goats.
  • This goat is exotic and is only found at 15000 feet above sea level in Ladakh, making the art of Pashmina even rarer and revered all over the world.
  • Spinning on a traditional Kashmiri charkha allows longer threads of Pashmina wool with fine hair-like size, unlike machines, and adds to the softness and warmth of the product.
  • A Kashmiri woman can spin up to five grams of wool a day.
  • It is a geographical indication (GI)-certified product.
  • It also received a Minimum Support Price (MSP) from Directorate of Handicrafts and Handloom, Kashmir.

Changthangi Goat-

  • The Changthangi or Chagra is a breed of cashmere goat native to the high plateaux of Ladakh in India.
  • The cold temperatures in the region are the primary factor in the growth of the fine pashmina grade of cashmere wool for which they are reared.
  • These goats are generally domesticated and are reared by nomadic communities called the Changpa in the Changthang regions of Ladakh, including the Rupshu, Demchok/Skakjung and the Pangong Lake regions.

The goats survive on grass in Ladakh, where temperatures plunge to as low as −20 °C (−4.00 °F)

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