Pure Kashmiri Pashmina Kani Shawl - Dusk

A pure Kashmiri pashmina Kani shawl in dusk, a soft muted grey-violet, handwoven in Kashmir with a floral pattern carried across the field and a deep patterned border at each end.

Kani is the oldest and slowest of Kashmir's shawl techniques. The pattern isn't printed or embroidered onto the cloth — it is built into the weave itself, colour by colour, using small wooden bobbins called kanis. The weaver follows a coded pattern script and may complete only an inch or two in a day, which is why a piece like this is measured in months of work rather than hours.

Dusk sits between grey and violet, and it changes with the light — cooler in daylight, warmer under lamps. Kani is usually worked on decisive colour, so a shade this indefinite makes for an unusually quiet piece: the pattern is all there, but you have to come close to read it.

Details

• Pure Kashmiri pashmina
• Kani handwoven on the loom, not embroidered or printed
• Patterned field with a wide woven end border
• Approx. 42" × 90"
• Dry clean only
• Handwoven in Kashmir

Each shawl is one of a kind. Slight irregularity in the weave is inherent to handloom work and is the mark of an authentic Kani piece.

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