{"product_id":"palladar-ek-rukh-ring-jamawar-shawl-taupe","title":"Fine Pashmina Ek Rukh Ring (Palladar) Jamawar Shawl — Taupe","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA fine Kashmiri pashmina ring shawl (Palladar) in warm taupe, woven \u003cem\u003ejamawar\u003c\/em\u003e — patterned across the entire cloth rather than only at the ends. A dense silver flowering vine fills the whole field, scattered through with small paisley \u003cem\u003ebutis\u003c\/em\u003e picked out in red, black and green; a wide silver border of interlocking cartouches runs down all four sides, and each end closes with broad bands of ikat-feathered stripe in green, coral, crimson and silver.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe name comes from the test. A Palladar is a shawl fine enough to be drawn whole through a finger ring — and that is only possible when the pashmina has been hand-spun on a charkha to a thread so fine it is barely visible against the light. Spinners who do this work have often done nothing else for decades. The weaving that follows is just as slow, because yarn this fine breaks if the loom is pushed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJamawar — patterned end to end\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThere is no plain cloth on this shawl. A bordered piece carries its work at the two ends and leaves the field empty; a jamawar carries pattern across every inch, which on a loom means the weaver never gets an easy passage and the piece takes several times as long as a bordered one of the same size. Doing that on ring-shawl yarn is the hard version — the finer the thread, the more it resists dense patterning, which is why most full-coverage jamawars are woven on heavier cloth. This one is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe scattered butis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhat separates this from our silver grey jamawar is what happens on top of the field. The silver vine is one layer; the small coloured paisleys are a second, dropped across it in a strict diagonal rhythm. Each buti is a separate small passage of coloured weft in a ground that is already fully patterned — the weaver has to hold the vine repeat and the buti grid in register at the same time, and any drift in either shows immediately because there is nowhere to hide it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe result is a shawl that reads as a quiet neutral from a distance and as three separate designs up close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEk Rukh — woven on one face\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eKashmiri weavers distinguish between \u003cem\u003edo-rukha\u003c\/em\u003e, worked so the pattern reads on both faces of the cloth, and \u003cem\u003eek rukh\u003c\/em\u003e — one face. This shawl is ek rukh, and on a full-coverage Palladar it is the only way the two things can coexist. Patterning both faces across an entire jamawar field would have made the shawl several times heavier and ended the ring test outright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe ring test, and the one honest difference\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe base cloth is exactly the same ultra-fine pashmina as our plain ring shawls. There is only one difference between the two, and it is on the reverse: a plain ring shawl has a clean back with nothing to snag, and this one has loose threads on the back where each colour turns at the end of its run. Those threads are the whole reason the front carries a design in full colour, and they are also the only thing that can catch. So yes, it passes through a ring — draw it slowly and let the cloth feed. We would rather tell you that than let you find out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDetails\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUltra-fine hand-spun Kashmiri pashmina\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandwoven ring shawl — passes through a finger ring when drawn slowly\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eJamawar\u003c\/em\u003e — handwoven pattern across the entire cloth, not only at the ends\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eScattered coloured paisley \u003cem\u003ebutis\u003c\/em\u003e over a silver flowering vine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandwoven \u003cem\u003eek rukh\u003c\/em\u003e (single-face) weave\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLoose threads across the reverse — inherent to ek rukh weaving, not a fault\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWoven borders on all four sides with ikat-striped ends and fringed edge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApprox. 40\" × 80\"\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDry clean only\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Kashmir\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHand-spun yarn varies slightly along its length; the faint unevenness you can see against the light is the signature of hand work, not a fault.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eShips in Attan's branded box with a thank-you card, ready to gift.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Attan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53850028310822,"sku":"ATT-PAL-TAU-021","price":45000.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0919\/4458\/3462\/files\/24b7dedc-85e8-4691-83be-2390b727b210.jpg?v=1789053846","url":"https:\/\/www.attanstore.com\/products\/palladar-ek-rukh-ring-jamawar-shawl-taupe","provider":"Attan Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}