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Sustainable Lifestyle Brand. Handcrafted by Women. True Luxury.

11/11/2025

This vibrant shawl is handwoven with natural beige Cashmere and hand dyed using madder and indigo.

Hand-dyed, handspun and handwoven by women artisans of the nomadic community of the region at our partner organization Lena, in Ladakh, India.

Available for preorder only.
Delivery in 45- 60 days from order date.

Dimensions: 70 x 230 cms Colour: Natural beige with madder & indigo Material: Ladakh Cashmere Features: Long tassels of madder cashmere and small tassels in natural beige

05/11/2025

Handwoven with pure Ladakh Cashmere that has been hand dyed with madder, marigold and indigo. The narrow width allows for this to double up as a stole.

Hand-dyed, handspun and handwoven by women artisans of the nomadic community of the region at our partner organization Lena, in Ladakh, India.

Available for preorder only.
Delivery in 45- 60 days from order date.

Dimensions: 55 x 200 cms Colour: Madder, Marigold & Indigo Material: Ladakh Cashmere Features: Handmade tassels

27/10/2025

This deep, rich indigo is the perfect way to welcome winter, with its indigo evenings in all its splendour. Handwoven with pure Ladakh Cashmere that has been hand-dyed with indigo.

Hand-dyed, handspun and handwoven by women artisans of the nomadic community of the region, at our partner organization Lena, in Ladakh, India.

Available for preorder only.
Delivery in 45- 60 days from order date.

Dimensions: 90 x 235 cms Colour: Indigo Material: Ladakh Cashmere Features: Handmade tassels

22/10/2025

Pure Ladakh Cashmere or Pashmina shawl is handwoven on a four pedal loom giving it the beautiful herringbone weave that you see all across this keepsake.

Hand-dyed, handspun and handwoven by women artisans of the nomadic community of the region.

Available for preorder only.
Delivery in 45- 60 days from order date.

Dimensions: 70 x 205 cms Colour: Walnut & Indigo Material: Ladakh Pashmina Features: Handmade tassels

20/10/2025

Our classic Changtang Pashmina Shawl is made from the unique gray coloured wool of the Chantangi goat. Handspun, handwoven and kept in its natural colour, this shawl is as soft as a cloud yet strong enough to become an heirloom for generations to come. Changtang is a part of the Tibetan plateau that extends into South-Eastern Ladakh in India.

Hand-dyed, handspun and handwoven by women artisans of the nomadic community of the region.

Available for preorder only.
Delivery in 45- 60 days from order date.

Dimensions: 95 x 200 cms Colour: Natural gray & Beige Material: Changtang Pashmina Features: Fringe edge

29/09/2025

Chapter 8 - Weaving

All our pashmina fabrics are woven on the fly-shuttle 4-pedal loom. The weavers in the team have been trained in basic weaving techniques by the government’s handloom department. The spinners, knitters and backstrap loom weavers in the team, work from home, keeping their traditional skills alive.

These women didn’t have enough opportunities to apply the skills they acquired from the government vocational training because there were not many weaving cooperatives. Today. The scene is different with many enterprises, cooperatives and self-help groups coming into existence. With this new hope for a better life and future for their children, more and more women are joining the fold, learning hand spinning, hand dyeing and hand weaving.

The thrill of giving life to a pashmina shawl from spinning, plying, dyeing and weaving is truly incomparable for its maker and something they wish to come back to again and again.

Pashmina is personal to its maker and to its wearer, a relationship that surpasses time.

26/09/2025

Chapter 7 - Warp
The warping truly determines the story of that piece of Pashmina. Its drape, its character and its life. As you can see on our artisan’s face, this meditative practice is immersive and carries the energy from her hands, the feelings in her heart and the dreams she births during the creation of this heirloom piece. Its quiet whispers will be woven in for many lifetimes to come.

24/09/2025

Chapter 6 - Dyeing
All our yarns are hand dyed using natural dyes extracted from local herbs like Himalayan walnut, marigold, Himalayan rhubarb, arnebia and Indian madder. We also source some plant based dyes like lac, sappanwood and indigo from other parts of India.

The rustic hues of the Himalayan Walnut dye as seen in our Meadow shawl.
The sunset vibes of Marigold as seen in our Marigold shawl.
The deep brick red of Madder as seen in our Flame shawl.
The incomparable indigo can be seen in our Indigo shawl while traces of Indigo are also seen in our Marigold and Meadow shawls.

Our natural shawl is made from the natural gray of the Changtangi goat’s wool, undyed and raw.

22/09/2025

Chapter 5 - Plying
The next chapter in the Pashmina story is on plying. In this meditative process the spun threads are doubled and twisted to be used as the warp of the fabric (the horizontal part of the weave that becomes the length of the textile). This process strengthens the yarns, making them durable enough for your heirloom-worthy weaves. Twisting is also done using a wooden spindle called ju-phang and these handspun, handplied warps display a drape, distinctive to pashmina shawls.

19/09/2025

Chapter 4 - Spinning

The art of hand-spinning the Pashmina, is a rare skill that only a limited number of women practice. Majority of the women spinners are from the most remote parts of Ladakh, called ‘Zanskar’ which remains cut off from Leh during the winters, which is for almost half of the year, with the only means of commute being the frozen Zanskar river. To escape the harsh winters and due to the lack of medical facilities, families from Zanskar move temporarily to Leh.

The women are skilled in spinning and twisting pashmina and yak wool and this provides them with a means of livelihood. Some spinners also hail from ‘Paldar’, which is another distant village in a district outside Ladakh. They have formed small groups of 6 to 7 women who spend almost all of their year spinning pashmina and knitting other wool. The group has artisans spanning the ages of early twenties to late sixties working together, with the elders passing on their skill to the young.

Some families have settled almost permanently in Leh because of the employment opportunities, and better education for their children.

In Ladakh the pashmina is handspun in the traditional technique of using a wooden whorless-spindle as seen in this photo.

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