Fine Pashmina Ring (Palladar) Shawl — Charcoal with Antique Rose Border

A fine Kashmiri pashmina ring shawl (Palladar) in charcoal grey, self-patterned across its entire length with a dense trellis of paisley and flowering vine woven in the same colour, and finished at each end with a broad band of large paisleys in antique rose, olive and cream, closed by a plain charcoal panel.

The 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.

A field that is fully patterned, in one colour

Most ring shawls are woven plain, because pattern adds weight and weight ends the ring test. This one is patterned across every inch — but tonally, grey on grey, so the paisley is built into the cloth rather than laid on it in colour. It is the coverage of a jamawar without the weight of one: from a distance the shawl reads as plain charcoal, and only up close does the whole field resolve into paisley.

That is a quieter effect than a coloured jamawar and, for most people, a more wearable one — all of the work, none of the announcement.

The border

Against the grey, the end band is the only colour on the shawl, and it is a faded antique rose rather than a bright pink — the tone of an old carpet. Beyond it the ground returns to plain charcoal, which gives the border a frame and stops the design from running off the edge of the cloth.

Details

• Ultra-fine hand-spun Kashmiri pashmina
• Handwoven ring shawl — passes through a finger ring
• Self-patterned charcoal field with woven antique rose paisley end borders
• Plain charcoal end panels with fringed edge
• Approx. 40" × 80"
• Dry clean only
• Handwoven in Kashmir

Hand-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.

Ships in Attan's branded box with a thank-you card, ready to gift.