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Kashmiri cashmere travels: the weaving tradition is Kashmiri, while the workshops sit in Jaipur or Varanasi. Andraab hand-weaves and embroiders high-grade Kashmiri cashmere shawls in its Jaipur workshop since 1996. Kashmir Loom works Kani weave and Sozni-embroidered pashmina shawls, stoles. HolyWeaves weaves hand-woven Banarasi sarees, shawls in Varanasi. A pashmina is judged against the light, where a loose weave shows as pinholes and a tight one as an even glow.
Sector 36A, Chandigarh
Jasmine Bains runs a by-appointment luxury studio in Sector 36A known for eco-printed silk carrying botanical imprints, worked into evening gowns, saris, lehengas and bridal wear. The label pairs Indian craftsmanship with minimal, modern silhouettes and also makes satin scarves and accessories.
Best for Eco-printed silk and occasion wear
Connaught Place, New Delhi
Curated marketplace for Indian crafts — handloom sarees, tribal jewellery, Kashmiri shawls, blue pottery and artisanal foods from across India.
Best for Curated Indian crafts.
Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi
Founded in the early 1900s by Ram Chandra and son Krishan Chandra as a saree and shawl business; Krishan Chandra petitioned to rename the lane Gali Paranthewali. RCKC sells sarees, lehengas and suits, not food.
Best for Stuffed parathas from a century-old family shop, running since 1910
RCKC is not a food business, despite trading from Gali Paranthewali (Paratha Lane) in Chandni Chowk, the Old Delhi street famous for paratha shops. Company records place its founding around the early 1900s, when Ram Chandra moved his family from Badaun to Delhi to trade sarees and shawls; his son Krishan Chandra later built the business further, and the initials RCKC stand for Ram Chandra Krishan Chandra. According to the company's own account, it was Krishan Chandra who petitioned the British colonial government to rename the street — then called Dariba Khurd, known for its silverware trade — to Gali Paranthewali, after the paratha vendors who had by then set up in the same lane, and he advertised his shop's address under that new name in newspapers. The paratha trade itself in that lane dates to 1872, when Pandit Gaya Prasad opened the first paratha shop after arriving from Agra; several more paratha-family shops followed between 1875 and 1886, and by 1960 there were around twenty of them, all from that same extended family — a separate lineage from RCKC. RCKC today sells sarees, lehengas, suits, and dupattas, positioned on heritage craftsmanship and traditional Indian weaves rather than food.
Narain Niwas Palace, Jaipur
A specialist shop selling high-grade Kashmiri cashmere shawls made with skilled weavers and embroiderers. The business was founded in 1996 and states that its aim is to preserve Kashmiri pashmina craftsmanship.
Best for High-grade Kashmiri cashmere shawls hand-woven and embroidered since 1996
Andraab was founded in Jaipur in 1996 by brothers Mubashir and Muzakir with the explicit goal of reviving the heritage of the Kashmir shawl at a moment when factory-made imitations were eroding the market for genuine hand-woven pashmina. The house sources its cashmere from goats raised in the Changthang region of Ladakh, tended by traditional goatherds, and the raw fiber is spun and woven using methods refined in Kashmir over roughly five centuries. Finished pieces pass through skilled embroiderers who hand-work each shawl to exacting standards, a process the founders describe as sustaining hundreds of weavers and embroiderers across the Kashmir Valley. Andraab has positioned itself deliberately against mechanized, mass-produced imitation pashmina, framing authenticity and artisan welfare -- including the treatment of the goats themselves -- as central to its identity rather than a marketing footnote. From its Kashmir production base the brand has expanded into a small network of stores spanning New York, New Delhi, Srinagar and Jaipur, where it occupies a shop within the Narain Niwas Palace complex alongside a cluster of other Rajasthani craft retailers. The result is a business that functions simultaneously as a commercial atelier and as a working link in a regional textile tradition under pressure from industrial substitutes.
Ballygunge, Kolkata
Rumi and Bappaditya Biswas opened Byloom in 2011 to work directly with weaving clusters producing jamdani, double-cloth, and fine muslin cotton, adapting handloom techniques for everyday wear rather than only formal saris. The Kolkata store and its weaver partners also turn out kurtas, dupattas, scarves, and handwoven home textiles.
Best for Jamdani and muslin sarees woven with contemporary designs
Gariahat, Kolkata
Kshetra Mohan Saha established this saree shop in Dhaka in 1925; the family reopened it on Rash Behari Avenue in Gariahat after relocating to Kolkata in 1946-47. Now run by the fourth generation, it deals in Banarasi, silk, and Dhakai-muslin sarees along with blouses and shawls.
Best for Dhakai-muslin and Banarasi sarees at accessible prices
Srinagar / pan-India
CCIC Cottage Emporium, an initiative of the Government of India, sells Kashmiri pashmina shawls and stoles made from Chanthangi goat cashmere fiber, alongside paper mache handicrafts, brass crafts, woolen garments and walnut wood carving, made through cottage industries known as Kutir Udyog.
Best for Government-sourced Kashmiri pashmina and papier-mache
Srinagar
Kashmir House of Pashminas sources its inventory directly from Jammu & Kashmir, India, selling cotton, viscose and wool pashmina shawls including Cashmilon Aari Work and Cashmilon Needle Work embroidered pieces, along with cashmere yarn and Kashmiri jewelry.
Best for Aari and needle-work embroidered pashmina
Srinagar / India
Kashmir Loom, founded by Jenny Housego and Asaf Ali, has spent over 25 years reviving Kani weave and Sozni embroidery traditions from the Kashmir valley into contemporary pashmina shawls, stoles, and clothing. The brand sells from its Srinagar and Delhi stores as well as its international online shop.
Best for Kani weave and Sozni-embroidered pashmina shawls, stoles
Srinagar
KashmKari traces its craft to its founder's great-grandfather Peerzada Saif-Ud-Din, whose master craftsmen made their first piece around 150 years ago, and sells hand-embroidered Sozni, Aari and Tilla shawls in pashmina, cotton, wool and raw silk, plus walnut wood carvings, papier-mâché and hand-woven pure silk carpets from Kashmir.
Best for Sozni and Tilla embroidered pashmina
Srinagar / Online
Kepra is an 81-year-old registered manufacturer of GI-certified Kashmiri Pashmina shawls based in Srinagar, selected as the official gifting partner for the G20 Summit in Srinagar and the 2025 Maritime Leaders Conclave. The brand sells hand-embroidered Kani, Sozni, and jaldaar pashmina shawls through its online shop.
Best for Brand sells hand-embroidered Kani, Sozni
Srinagar
Pure Kashmir, established in 2013, sources handwoven pashmina and cashmere shawls direct from artisans in Srinagar, made from Changthangi goat fibers combed at 14,000 feet on the Changthang plateau. Its techniques include kani weaving with coded-manuscript patterns taking 12 to 18 months, sozni embroidery with a single fine needle, and jali and jamawar embroidery.
Best for Kani and sozni pashmina shawls
Varanasi / Online
HolyWeaves weaves luxury Banarasi sarees, shawls, and fabrics by hand in its Varanasi atelier, a Silk Mark-certified operation recognized for five decades of handloom craftsmanship. Customers can browse the full catalog online with global shipping or visit the working looms in person near the Kashi Vishwanath Temple.
Best for Hand-woven Banarasi sarees, shawls and fabrics
Barmer, Rajasthan
This Barmer workshop and manufacturer-exporter block-prints Ajrakh by hand using natural vegetable dyes. It makes sarees, scarves, dress material, cushion covers, bedsheets and sarongs.
Best for Original natural-dye Ajrakh block-printed fabrics and made-ups
Shaligram Arcade, Bopal Ambli Road, Ahmedabad
Amounee is a Bopal-based handloom and handicraft house that sources sarees, shawls, and artwear directly from rural Indian weavers and artisans. Its store sits at 1224 Shaligram Arcade on Bopal Ambli Road, pairing the shop with an online catalogue organized by craft.
Best for Authentic Indian handloom and handicraft
Kausani, Uttarakhand
Kausani Shawl weaves Himalayan wool into shawls, stoles and Pahadi topis on handlooms, using naturally derived dyes rather than mill-processed color. The workshop's pieces are sold from its own counters across the Kumaon towns of Kausani, Kathgodam and Haldwani.
Best for Hand-woven Himalayan wool shawls and Pahadi topis
Choglamsar, Leh
Lehvallee runs a vertically integrated workshop in Choglamsar that takes raw changra fibre through to finished handmade pashmina scarves and shawls, supporting local women and herders along the way. The brand keeps a showroom in Leh and also supplies a sister label, Yangdol, in Europe.
Best for Handmade pashmina scarves and shawls
Aurangabad (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar), Maharashtra
This long-established Aurangabad weaver and retailer makes Paithani and Himroo sarees, pashmina shawls and souvenirs. An on-site handloom unit lets visitors watch the weaving process.
Best for Paithani and Himroo sarees, pashmina shawls
Sidhpur, Dharamshala
Founded in 1988 to preserve Tibetan literary and artistic traditions, the institute employs more than 300 artisans producing thangka paintings, gilded copper statues, appliqué, wood carving and hand-woven textiles on its Sidhpur campus. Its concept store and online shop sell the workshops' output, from Buddhist religious art to the Wanderer's Collection of scarves and clothing.
Best for Thangka paintings, Tibetan statues, appliqué and handwoven textiles
Aurangabad (Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar), Maharashtra
Established in 1891, this sixth-generation, Silk Mark-certified handloom house weaves the region's Himroo brocade and Paithani sarees, with motifs drawn from the Ajanta and Ellora caves. It supports around 300 weaving families.
Best for Heritage Himroo brocade shawls, stoles and Paithani sarees
Patan / India
The Salvi family has woven double-ikat Patan patola for some thirty-five generations, and their Rani ki Vav road heritage house pairs a small museum with genuine natural-dye sarees and scarves for sale. Each cloth is tie-dyed on both warp and weft so its pattern reads identically on either side.
Best for Thirty-five generations of Salvi-family double-ikat weaving, a heritage museum
Amritsar
Sells phulkari hand-embroidered textiles, pashmina and kalamkari shawls, and kadas in stainless steel, copper, brass and sarbloh iron. Also stocks pure wool shawls under the Dhariwal brand, with free returns offered within 14 days.
Best for Phulkari embroidery and pashmina shawls
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