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Pashmina What is Pashmina? Where does it come from? Pashmina is the undercoat of goats that are found in many high-altitude regions in the world, most commonly in Tibet, Mongolia and India. The climatic conditions in these places are very harsh, and the winters particularly severe. The goats develop a very fine and soft undercoat …
A Brief History of Pashmina Shawl Weaving in Kashmir Read More »
Source : – 30stades Sometime in the early 2000s, when Ghayur Alam was researching biodiversity conservation in Uttarakhand, he saw that many medicinal plants were becoming extinct because locals were recklessly harvesting them without permission and selling them to contractors in Delhi. He thought if there could be ways of providing alternative employment to these …
Hand-woven woollens by tribes in the Himalayas find a global market Read More »
Source : Entrepreneur.com It is said that spaces have tales. Around eight kilometres from Mussoorie, in an obscure hamlet called Masrana, a tale of love for nature, history, art and tradition is being weaved carefully. And it is being written by a feisty couple, Patricia and Dr Ghayur Alam, who had settled here about 12 years ago as …
A Start-up from the Valleys of Mussoorie Changing Weavers’ Life Read More »
Source :- Rediff The Alams saw the magical spot while on a drive to the hills.A few years later they set up home and a small hand woven shawl business, hiring local weavers, using local wool and natural colours made of root, stem and flower.Rediff.com‘s Archana Masih met them in their home overlooking the Himalayas …
An article on Himalayan Weavers in the Newspaper of Garhwal Post 2008
One of our interests in setting up Himalayan Weavers was to promote the use of natural dyes on wool. As Pat and I did not have any knowledge of or expertise in dyeing, we learnt the basics from the internet. The first lot we dyed was about 2 kilograms of hand spun wool we had …
Sangla Valley (Himachal Pradesh)
Two of the few women weavers we met during a visit to Tons valley to understand traditional shawl weaving techniques in tons valley in Uttarakhand. Unlike other parts of Uttarakhand, tons valley (near famous Har-ki-Dun) has a strong tradition of weaving shawls using traditional looms. This is largely because this region has cultural ties with …