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Whilst the Pashmina shawl has been a favourite with the gentry in Southern Asia for over five hundred years, pashmina sales in the west never really got off the ground until 1998 when fashion designers in London, Paris and New York began to include them as an intigral part of their catwalk collections.

For several centuries Kashmir was the sole place that the fiber could be woven into shawls, however nowadays although the traditional Kashmiri shawls are still hand embroidered in India, just about all of the worlds pashmina shawls are woven on handlooms in Nepal’s Katmandu Valley and most are woven on a warp of spun silk as this increases pliancy and durability. Over the last 10 years or so the cashmere / silk combination has become a staple of the occidental fashion world. Style gurus now list it in the same breath as an equal to the little black dress when naming their wardrobe essentials.

The uses for a pashmina shawl are numerous, from an evening walk along the promenade to lunch at a swanky restaurant to breakfast on the terrace. A pashmina shawl will give you several years of enjoyable wear, additionally it makes a great gift.

The Cashmere Centre has a great collection of genuine pashmina shawls.

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