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(Source: The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah.com)
Charla Krupp, editor of Glamour magazine, recommends these five looks for the pashmina shawl. |
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"For people with no hips," Oprah says. Just wrap around your waist, drape attractively and go. |
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Simple, elegant, warm. Perfect for work, shopping or fun! |
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If one pashmina shawl is great, two must be twice as good. |
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Charla says this look is replacing mother's mink stole. It's terrific for evening, particularly with the higher-end, beaded pashmina shawls. |
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This stylish look is easy to create — once you know how. |
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Step 1:
Fold your pashmina shawl in half along its length, making sure the folded edge is at the top or facing you. |
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Step 2:
Fold the pashmina shawl in half again, this time along its width. You should have an end that's folded and an end that's open. |
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Step 3:
Place the folded shawl behind your head. Pull the open end through the loop at the folded end. Voila! You're suddenly chic! (top) |
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| Material |
100% Pashmina or Blend of Pashmina & Silk. |
| Dyes |
Chemical (Azo Free Swiss dyes). |
| Size |
As per your requirement. |
| Ply |
1 Ply and 2 Ply. |
| Design |
Twill, Herringbone, Diamond, Jacquard. |
| Color |
As per your requirement. (top) |
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What is Pashmina...
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Pashmina is made from the finest cashmere wool in the world. It is combed from the underside of the Himalayan Mountain Goat, which are indigenous to the mountains of Central Asia. Pashmina has been valued for centuries throughout Asia and the Middle East, and the wonderful qualities of pashmina are now making it just as popular in the West. Please rest assured that no animals are harmed in the making of pashmina. Our pashmina shawls are remarkably soft and light, considering how much warmth they provide. Our customers tell us how much they love their shawls, and we know you will receive many compliments when you wear them.
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Definition of Pashmina
"Pashmina" is the Persian word for pashm meaning finest wool fibre, the "soft gold" king of fibers. Every summer, Himalayan farmers climb the mountains to comb the fine woolen undercoat from the neck and chest of, himalayan mountain pashm, not to be confused with the endangered Tibetan antelope that is killed to produce shatoosh shawls. To survive the freezing 14,000 ft-altitude environment, grows a unique, incredibly soft pashm, inner coat, six times finer than human hair. Because it is only 14-19 microns in diameter, it cannot be spun by machines, so the downy wool is hand-woven into shawls for export, predominantly to America and Europe.
Although they have been popular with aristocracy in Southern Asia since the 15th Century, pashmina sales in the West suddenly took off in 1998 when designers in London, Paris and New York started to include them in their fashion collections. Since then the growing demand has helped push the price down to an affordable level.
Definition of Cashmere
Too much confused and afraid of popularity of Pashmina as a thing of east and bugged by its undying demand some companies to make huge profits and confining the goods to their own registered Cashmere as a trade mark item for their own use and benefits and to make it highly expensive out of reach of people as copyright and monopoly business defined their own
definition as a thing of west and to restrict the entry of Pashmina into west by its own
definitions to make huge profits for a $100 pashmina shawl to sell at $1000 as cashmere without any value addition.(top) |
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Choosing Pashmina...
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When choosing a pashmina it is important to check whether the piece is 100 percent pashmina or if it has been blended with silk. We recommend either 100 percent or a 70/30 percent silk blend. "I find that a 90/10 percent blend fuzzes too much, as does the 80/20 percent. And anything less that 70 percent pashmina tends to be too shiny." A 100 percent pashmina shouldn't fluff or pill and should be colorfast. An occasional dry clean should keep it in good condition, and it can be spot-treated with baby shampoo and cold water and dried flat. |
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"Most women select a medium-sized (180x60cm) silk blended pashmina, which usually retails at USD 500 in USA." Since we have our own manufacturing unit we are able to sell the same top quality products at affordable prices.
Pashmina Care
With regular care Pashmina articles will maintain its outlook , increase in softness and long lasting. We do not apply the brush to make it soft. We advise our client not to ask softness more than required and not to believe that have more soft is right quality. Brushing makes soft and feels thicker but leads to pilling (balling up) and wears out easily.
Always use cold water and hand wash with low pH or normal pH shampoo or pure castillc soap. We advise our clients not to add any chemical like bleaching and never use hot water more than 50 degree Celsius. After washing remove the excess water by hand press and lay out on the plane surface. For restore the finishing lay on the table and cover with butter paper and press with hot iron. (top) |
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The production process ...
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Himalayan Mountain goat, Carpa Hircus, sheds its winter coat every spring. One goat sheds approximately 3-8 ounces of the fiber. As it can be collected only once a year and that too in a very small amounts, Pashmina is uxury as well as rare. The fibre collected in this way, is spun either manually or by mechanically. The weaving is entirely done by hands on hand-looms. We have our weaving masters who are descendents of ancient Mughal crafts people. The other weavers are Nepali - Tibetan people who also have traditional experience and link with weaving craftsmanship.
At our industry dyeing is also completed by hand, 3-4 pieces individually. We have been in dyeing field for more than 27 years and it's exciting that we were the first to introduce pashmina dyeing in the Kathmandu valley, and in Nepal as a whole. We use Sandoz metal-free and azo-free dyes which are the Swiss company's new generation of eco-friendly dyes. We dye at a temperature just below boiling point for about 45 minutes. |
The products are first rinsed in hot water, then in cool water, and finally washed and cleansed with shampoo prescribed by experts and experienced technician of the factory.
Thus production process includes:
1. Fiber collection.
2. Fiber spinning.
3. Weaving in hand-looms.
4. Mending white pieces.
5. Washing white pieces to remote spot, blots, etc.
6. Dyeing.
7. Fringe making.
8. Embroidery.
9. Ironing.
10. Packing. (top) |
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