About Kani Shawls Specialty

As late as the 18^th century, jamavar shawls from India were hand woven using different color bobbins called kanis , hence derived the name known as "kani " shawls. The name was sign of highest ranking jamavar shawls. Now  the hand weaving of that type of intricately designed jamavar shawl is no longer commercially viable, since one shawl would take a craftsman weaver months or  years, to complete.   Now Kani  Jamavar shawls today are made on automated jacquard looms by us  and is liked by all  due to rare craftsmanship which is difficult to replicate though many try to copy us. 

we have crafted the technique  by developing a techniques to more closely replicate this intricate crisply multicolor  motifs of the original kani jamavar shawls.  Surprisingly it sells in market as Kani shawl the original so developed is the technique

  We  make this modern kani jamavar shawls are on special jacquard looms but are significantly different from the regular known jacquard jamavar shawls sold in market.  Here, the kani shawls’ motifs are more intricately define and  is distinguished  by  a larger number of colors than a jacquard jamavar. .

As kani shawl will usually incorporate a large number of colors   the weft threads on a kani shawl are carried along as floats on the back side of the shawl and are only woven in when their colors are required.  When the weaving is finished, the float threads are cut away by hand.  This hand cutting is a time consuming process delicate one and add to a shawl’s cost.

 Kani are the original kashmiri shawls, responsible for the love affair that has been going on for centuries. Due to automation, complexity and time needed to produce a fine shawl their production has gone down significantly over the past 150 years. Today, though not obsolete, they are very rare, and there is only a limited number of weavers dedicated to their production.