Kashmir · Handwoven Pashmina · 2026
House of Pashmina
The soft gold of the mountain, opened thread by thread.
Nilofer is a house of Kashmiri pashmina. Every shawl is combed, spun and embroidered by hand in the valley, and named for something real within it.
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The House of Pashmina
Pashmina is combed, never shorn. It is the fine undercoat of the Changthangi goat, carried down from the high plateau, spun by hand, and worked by hand again into pieces of uncommon patience.
Three collections, fifty shawls. A garden, a lake, the saffron fields at Pampore, the wooden ceiling of an old house, the snow. The name is the shortest way to say where each shawl comes from.
Autumn 2026 · Fifteen shawls of Kashmir
Harud
Autumn, the season of the shawl
Every piece in Harud takes its name from something real in Kashmir: a garden, a lake, the saffron fields at Pampore, the wooden ceiling of an old house, the snow. The name is the shortest way to say where the shawl comes from.
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Kashmir 2026 · Twenty pieces
The Shawl Edit
Pieces of uncommon patience
The Shawl Edit brings together twenty distinct compositions, from dense hand embroidery and precise graphic borders to quiet metallic bands and tonal weave. Each piece is presented in the language of the house: made slowly, kept for generations.
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Volume One · Fifteen shawls
The Pashmina Catalogue
Soft gold of the mountain
Pashmina is combed, never shorn. It is the fine undercoat of the Changthangi goat, carried down from the high plateau, spun by hand and worked by hand again. Each shawl is documented the way the house keeps its records: ground, motif, border, palette, styling.
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Hands before machines, always.
From the spinning wheel to the sozni needle, a single Nilofer shawl passes through the hands of spinners, weavers, dyers and embroiderers. It is a lineage of Kashmiri craft kept alive stitch by stitch.
Meet the Makers
The Founder
Nilofer Wani
The house carries her name.
Raised in the valley, Nilofer built the house on a simple conviction. A Kashmiri shawl is not an accessory but an inheritance, and the women and men who make it deserve to be named, paid and remembered.
Her StoryA Responsible House
Nilofer Cares
House of Nilofer is a social enterprise built on fair practice. The fibre is combed, never shorn. The makers are treated with dignity, and the physical, mental and social wellbeing of artisans and their families is the house's concern.
Through Nilofer Cares, its corporate responsibility programme, artisan families, and above all the children and the girl child, are offered services in education, health, personal hygiene and skill development.
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Health
Personal Hygiene
Skill Development
Nilofer · The Water Lily
She blooms on still water, and the valley blooms with her.
The house takes its name from the nilofer, the water lily of Kashmir's lakes. Rooted in the lake bed, open to the light. That is how we make things here.
The Founder