Rectangular Wool Scarf Winter Clothes Handcrafted India Clothes 27" x 68" (jstl254)

For its price, a jamawar stole is very elegant and comfortable too. Designs have been borrowed from famous paisley shawls. These shawls are meant for every day wear, both casual and formal.

A jamawar is a special type of shawl hand made by the craftsmen in Kashmir. The jamawar design is a special floral pattern which resembles the mango fruit. Historically, it was made by hand and some shawls took a couple of decades to complete. The task of creating a jamawar shawl further complicated as the designs on these shawls are realized not by embroidery but by the simultaneous weaving with wool shuttles of different colors. These shuttles known as kaani in the local language gives Jamawar another name kaani shawl. The wool being delicate, it is essential to use the hands instead of machine and that requires enormous patience of the weavers among all the other qualities. Due to the enormous effort put in weaving and the amount of time it requires to be completed, the prices of the real Jamawar shawls are very high in the market since the old times. These shawls were so special that they often made the exclusive royal gifts to the foreign guests. They were also en vogue in many parts of Europe mainly as they held close resemblance to the Paisley shawls. The colors used in one shawls vary from two to fifty.