Rapid decline in the making of the fine handmade pashmina shawl in Kashmir. Now most of the Pashmina available for shawls is mostly machine spun and machine cleaned unlike the hand carded wool which was spun on a spinning wheel.
Previously all phases of producing Pashmina Shawls are done by hand like shearing the goats, storing, spinning the hair, weaving, coloring, dyeing and sewing. It Was a cottage industry in the villages of the Himalayan range.
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