A heavenly yellow shade, as if sneaked from the summer light, prospers the plumate, delicate, gossamer base of fine Cashmere handwoven in the realms of Pashmina art. The shawl features the world-famous Kani weave where small wooden bobbins are inserted into a plain woven shawl to create majestic patterns all over. A Kani Jamawar, as it is called, is a must-have for brides, and an extensive part of their wedding trousseau. For the connoisseurs of cultural art and history, a Kani shawl is nothing less than a treasure

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Have you ever witnessed a Kashmiri bride on her main day? Everything is perfect. Her dress, her jewellery, her makeup and accessories, each part of her get-up is the best version of itself. But there is something that surpasses everything the bride owns. It is a Kani Pashmina shawl which she is wrapped in before starting the journey of her new life.

What is Kani?

'Kani' in the local language means 'small wooden sticks' or 'bobbins'. It is these sticks around which colourful threads are wound and woven together with the delicate fibres of pure Pashm. But the makers have to go through a step by step process.

Setting the code: Once the handloom is set, the taalim (design or a code according to which the shawl is to be woven), is handed over to the weaver who has to weave the shawl according to this code.

Introducing the Kanis: Next, a Pashmina shawl, with warps and wefts, is loaded on the loom, where the length of each weft thread is first wound around a Kani. The weaving starts by inserting this Kani weft over and under the adjacent warp.

Weaving with Kanis: All the colourful Kanis are arranged as per the code of the shawl. Each Kani is used one at a time in the shawl, and as soon as the design demands another colour, the two Kanis are joined together by interlocking.

For a three feet wide length, around 400 Kani sticks are to be used and depending upon the design and complexity of a Kani shawl, it takes the artisan 1 day to complete just one inch, and 3 to 36 months to complete the entire piece.

This labour intensive work can thus stretch up to years together and finally what we get is nothing less than a piece of marvel.