Related Keywords: awarded GI status, fake and imitations cashmere shawl, Jammu and Kashmir government, made from downy wool of pashmina goats, non detachable label, Pashmina Testing and Quality Certification Centre, protect buyers, shawl passes rigorous tests, Srinagar Craft Development Institute, steps in with nanotechnology, traditional spinning wheels
The state government of Jammu and Kashmir has stepped in with nanotechnology to protect buyers from being duped with fakes and imitations of cashmere shawl made from the downy wool of pashmina goats herded in the high-altitude Ladakh region of India’s Jammu and Kashmir state and adorned the shoulders of aristocracy for centuries.
It takes skilled Kashmiri craftspeople working traditional spinning wheels and looms to turn the wool into the work of art that is the cashmere shawl.
