About UsThe shawls made in kashmir occupy a pre-eminent place among textile products; and it is to them and to their imitations from western looms that specific importance attaches. The kashmir shawl is characterized by the elaboration of its design, in which the "cone" pattern is a prominent feature, and by the glowing harmony, brilliance, depth, and enduring qualities of its colours. The basis of these excellences is found in the very fine, soft, short, flossy under-wool, called pashm or pashmina, found on the shawl-goat, a variety of capra hircus inhabiting the elevated regions of tibet. There are several varieties of pashm, but the finest is a strict monopoly of the maharaja of kashmir. Inferior pashm and kerman wool.
A fine soft persian sheep's wool ? Are used for shawl weaving at amritsar and other places in the punjab, where colonies of kashmiri weavers are established. Of shawls, apart from shape and pattern, there are only two principal classes: (1) loom-woven shawls called tiliwalla, tilikar or kani kar Sometimes woven in one piece, but more often in small segments which are. Sewn together with such precision that the sewing is quite imperceptible; and (2) embroidered shawls Amlikar In which over a ground of plain pashmina is worked by needle a minute and elaborate pattern.
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