{"title":"Hand-embroidered cashmere wraps","description":"\u003cp\u003eCashmere wraps whose embroidery is worked entirely by hand — stitch by stitch, without a stencil and without a machine. Most pieces exist exactly once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore about the fibre – origin, characteristics, production and care: \u003ca href=\"\/en-int\/pages\/kaschmirwolle\"\u003eCashmere wool\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kaschmirtuch-swar","title":"Cashmere wrap \"Swar\" (स्वर) – Grey, 100% cashmere, hand-embroidered, handwoven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSwar\u003c\/strong\u003e — the tone. In Indian music, this is the name for the individual note, the sound from which everything else is built.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ground of this wrap is a dark greyish blue, calm and in a single colour, smoothly woven. What lies on it is \u003cstrong\u003eembroidered by hand — and across the entire surface.\u003c\/strong\u003e Not at the ends, not as a border, but from one edge to the other: cream-coloured tendrils that wind and branch, with individual flowers in between, each placed on its own, and small leaves at the tips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHold the wrap close to the light and you will see what these tendrils are made of: chain stitches, one after the other, barely a millimetre long. The embroiderer works without a printed pattern. She places the tendril as it comes, and that is why no two run alike — tighter in one place, sweeping wider in another, one more flower here, one fewer there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is the difference from a patterned fabric. A pattern is set up and then runs by itself; an embroidery comes about stitch by stitch, and every single one takes time. On a surface of 73 by 196 centimetres, that means many hours of someone sitting with a needle in hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt takes \u003cstrong\u003e25 to 28 days\u003c\/strong\u003e to finish a wrap like this — almost a month, and most of that is spent not on the weaving but on the needle. Both the weaving and the embroidery are done by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe wrap itself has remained light: two twisted threads, 12 gauge, 15.3 microns, 90 grams. It can be worn all year round — over the shoulder in summer, under a coat in winter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Namaste Kids Help Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51223048552714,"sku":"1002148","price":219.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0279\/4913\/7995\/files\/IMG_2979_ba308e24-01ff-4b92-8a20-3d29f8a32f18.jpg?v=1747719241"},{"product_id":"kaschmirtuch-gurukul","title":"Cashmere wrap \"Gurukul\" (गुरुकुल) – Purple, 100% cashmere, hand-embroidered, handwoven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGurukul\u003c\/strong\u003e — this is the name of the old form of school in which the pupils live in their teacher's house and learn there. A name we did not choose by chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ground is a deep violet, and on it, at one corner, stands a single large motif: a boteh, that curved almond shape which became known in Europe as paisley. It is embroidered in gold and ochre, its outline drawn in fine chain stitches, the inside filled with flowers in cream and white. Tendrils run from it across the surface, and a narrow embroidered band follows the edge. The rest of the wrap remains free — the motif needs the space, otherwise it loses its calm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe embroidery is done with a needle, stitch by stitch, without a stencil and without a machine. Anyone who has seen such work once understands why it cannot be repeated: the embroiderer follows no template, but the fabric lying under her hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ground itself is made of the finest cashmere we carry — \u003cstrong\u003e14.8 microns\u003c\/strong\u003e. Four twisted threads, densely woven at 12 gauge, 120 grams on 196 × 70 cm (77 × 28 in): thicker than a summer wrap, lighter than a winter scarf, and thus a piece you wear all year round.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 to 28 days\u003c\/strong\u003e of work have gone into it. It exists exactly once.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Namaste Kids Help Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51545382912266,"sku":"1001964","price":329.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0279\/4913\/7995\/files\/IMG_3712.jpg?v=1753252419"},{"product_id":"kaschmirtuch-kalkotri","title":"Cashmere wrap \"Kalkotri\" (कलकोत्री) – Black, 100% cashmere, hand-embroidered, handwoven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKalkotri\u003c\/strong\u003e — the darkness. \u003cem\u003eKālo\u003c\/em\u003e means black, \u003cem\u003ekoṭharī\u003c\/em\u003e the chamber.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA black wrap, and the black remains almost untouched. Scattered across the surface are individual small sprigs of blossom, far apart, each on its own: a flower in rust red and cream, a few leaves, a fine arc in gold that embraces them. From some distance you see only a deep black wrap — only those who come closer discover them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the edges the embroidery becomes denser and finishes the wrap with a narrow band; the outermost edge is overstitched in orange, a warm stroke that softens the black.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis way of embroidering demands more restraint than an all-over work: every single flower stands alone and must hold its own. There are no neighbours behind which an uneven stitch could disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ground is made of the finest cashmere we carry — \u003cstrong\u003e14.8 microns\u003c\/strong\u003e, four twisted threads, 12 gauge, 120 grams on 205 × 79 cm (81 × 31 in); the widest piece in this series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 to 28 days\u003c\/strong\u003e of work. A unique piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Namaste Kids Help Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52613361172746,"sku":"1002111","price":329.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0279\/4913\/7995\/files\/IMG_2962.jpg?v=1772365614"},{"product_id":"kaschmirtuch-khet","title":"Cashmere wrap \"Khet\" (खेत) – Brown, 100% cashmere, hand-embroidered, handwoven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKhet\u003c\/strong\u003e — the field. This is what the cultivated land that divides the slopes into terraces is called in Nepali.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis wrap carries two colours: a bright orange and a deep chestnut brown, like ripening grain and the earth beneath it. The same embroidery in natural white runs over both — but it looks different on each side: light and bright on the orange, like frost on dark ground on the brown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd it is dense. Unlike our other embroidered pieces, hardly any surface remains free here: branches, leaves and small flowers spread across the whole wrap, tendril beside tendril, with fine cross-stitches scattered in between. Each of these stitches is placed by hand. You could work out how many there are; it is easier to look at them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ground is made of the finest cashmere we carry — \u003cstrong\u003e14.8 microns\u003c\/strong\u003e, four twisted threads, 12 gauge, 120 grams on 205 × 70 cm (81 × 28 in).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 to 28 days\u003c\/strong\u003e of work. A unique piece that cannot be repeated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Namaste Kids Help Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52699685978378,"sku":"1002195","price":329.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0279\/4913\/7995\/files\/IMG_1147_c89b6206-079a-4a5a-a8b0-1279a7d0e70f.jpg?v=1773306527"},{"product_id":"kaschmirtuch-aashman","title":"Cashmere wrap \"Aashman\" (आशमान) – Blue, 100% cashmere, hand-embroidered, handwoven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAashman\u003c\/strong\u003e — the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA deep petrol blue, and over it a tracery of branches in orange and saffron yellow: thin twigs that branch and branch again, set with small leaves that all point in the same direction, as if wind were passing through. Along the edge runs a denser band of the same branches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe choice of colours is what is unusual about this piece: orange on blue is the strongest contrast two colours can form with each other. That is why the embroidery looks drawn from a distance, and up close you can see that every line consists of a chain of individual stitches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ground is made of the finest cashmere we carry — \u003cstrong\u003e14.8 microns\u003c\/strong\u003e, four twisted threads, 12 gauge, 120 grams on 205 × 75 cm (81 × 30 in).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 to 28 days\u003c\/strong\u003e of work. A unique piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Namaste Kids Help Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53148706439434,"sku":"1002290","price":329.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0279\/4913\/7995\/files\/IMG_1161.jpg?v=1780475199"},{"product_id":"kaschmirtuch-sundarta","title":"Cashmere wrap \"Sundarta\" (सुन्दरता) – Pink, 100% cashmere, hand-embroidered, handwoven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSundarta\u003c\/strong\u003e — beauty. With this wrap, the name says it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ground is a rich magenta, almost luminous. On it lies a network of fine tendrils in cream that join into wide arcs, and in each arc sits a small flower in \u003cstrong\u003eturquoise\u003c\/strong\u003e — the only colour in the entire range that stands up to a magenta without overpowering it. In some places a larger, many-petalled flower grows from it, star-shaped in layout, with a turquoise centre and a cream-coloured setting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree colours, then, cleanly separated, and none of them dominates. Anyone who has ever tried to work with three yarns at once knows that this is the real difficulty: not the single stitch, but keeping an overview of the whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ground is made of the finest cashmere we carry — \u003cstrong\u003e14.8 microns\u003c\/strong\u003e, four twisted threads, 12 gauge, 120 grams on 200 × 70 cm (79 × 28 in).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e25 to 28 days\u003c\/strong\u003e of work. 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