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Email: info@pashminas
andpearls.co.uk
Phone: 02920 701104
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Pashminas & Pearls
2 Raven Way
Penarth
Vale Of Glamorgan
CF64 5FH
Design Provided by: SA1 Design
andpearls.co.uk
Phone: 02920 701104
Post:
Pashminas & Pearls
2 Raven Way
Penarth
Vale Of Glamorgan
CF64 5FH
Design Provided by: SA1 Design
About Pashminas
All our pashminas are 70% Pashmina and 30% silk. They measure 70cm x 200cm and some 70% cashmere and 30% silk.
Pashmina is the most luxurious, softest, warmest and lightest natural fibre in the world and comes from the Capra-Hircus goat. This is the same goat that gives us cashmere. However pashmina only comes from goats resident about 15,000 feet, and from the one part of the neck. The higher the goats live, the finer their hair. Genuine pashmina fibres are always less than 14.5 microns in diameter, or about 1/6th the size of human hair.
Pashminas have been popular amongst the Indian aristocracy for 500 year and demand in the west has been massively increasing since the pashminas were first paraded on the catwalks of New York and Paris in 1998.
The Jacquard weave pashminas are extremely beautiful. The subtle paisley pattern in the weave catches the light. As you can see some of the pattern looks darker than the body of the weave and some lighter. It is actually the same colour, the difference depending on the angle of the light. This also goes for the small and large circle designs. Where two colours are used then the effect is equally wonderfully giving the effect of having two different pashminas in one.
Joseph jacquard recognised that weaving, though intricate and delicate, was also highly repetitive. He believed that weaving of complex as well as simple patterns could be automated and conceived a system using stiff, pasteboard cards with punched holes. At each throw of the shuttle a card was placed in the path of the rods, the pattern of hoes in the card determined which rods could pass through, acting as a program for the loom. This control system allowed for both flexibility and complexity of pattern.
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