Khadi Swati Pashmina Shawl — Off-White

A Khadi Swati pashmina shawl in off-white, handwoven on the khaddi handloom in Salampur, Swat. Our lightest, simplest and most affordable shawl, and the second most-ordered piece in the whole store.

What Khadi means

Khadi takes its name from the khaddi, the wooden handloom that every weaving family in Salampur keeps at home. A Khadi shawl is the plainest thing that loom makes: soft wool yarn, an open, light weave, a simple finish and no embroidery to add weight or cost. The result is a shawl that folds into a handbag, goes over a lawn kurta in October and a sweater in January, and does not need to be looked after like a fine pashmina. Read about the village that weaves it.

A note on the word pashmina

"Swati pashmina" is the Salampur weavers' own name for their softest everyday wool weave. It is a wool shawl, not the goat-fibre pashmina of Kashmir, and we price it as one. If you want the finer fibre, our Kani and ring shawls are woven from hand-spun pashmina in Kashmir; the difference is explained in Swati vs Kashmiri shawls.

The colour

Off-white is why this is our best-selling Khadi. It goes over every colour, it reads clean rather than stark, and it is the shawl customers buy three of at a time as gifts.

Details

• Soft wool, handwoven on the khaddi handloom in Salampur, Swat
• Plain woven finish, no embroidery
• Approx. 40" × 80"
• Dry clean, or hand wash gently in cold water with a mild wool wash
• Woven in Swat

Handwoven cloth varies slightly from piece to piece; small irregularities in the weave are the signature of hand work, not a fault. Colours may differ slightly from the photographs depending on your screen.

Ships in Attan's branded packaging.