Fine Pashmina Ring (Palladar) Shawl — Navy Blue

A fine Kashmiri pashmina ring shawl (Palladar) in deep navy blue, handwoven from hand-spun pashmina light enough to pass whole through a finger ring.

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. There is no machine equivalent and no shortcut; the ring is simply the proof.

Navy is the most useful dark shade after black, and the more wearable of the two in daylight. It sits well against grey, cream and brown, and it is the shade most often chosen by men buying a ring shawl for themselves.

Undecorated, so there is nothing to look at but the cloth itself. It folds down to almost nothing in a bag, weighs less than you expect in the hand, and is warmer than its weight suggests — which is the whole argument for pashmina at this level.

Details

• Ultra-fine hand-spun Kashmiri pashmina
• Plain handwoven ring shawl — passes through a finger ring
• 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.