Founder of Silsilah Studio, hand-finishing pure pashmina and cashmere shawls with karigars in Kashmir — disclosed fiber and origin on every piece.
I'm the founder of Silsilah Studio, a pure pashmina and cashmere house working with karigars in Kashmir. I can speak to fiber authenticity and how to actually verify it (the word "pashmina" has no legal protection in most markets, which creates real confusion for both consumers and journalists covering the space), the economics of small-batch and slow-fashion production, and Kashmiri textile craft traditions - specifically Kani weaving and hand embroidery techniques that are still largely undocumented in English-language coverage. What I bring that's specific: every piece we make discloses exact fiber content, country of manufacture, and time to make - not as a marketing claim, but because most of the market doesn't, and I think that gap is worth talking about publicly, not just solvin...