Pashmina
Subtitle: the Kashmir shawl and beyond
By: by Janet Rizvi with Monisha Ahmed.
Contributors: Ahmed, Monisha.; National Centre for the Performing Arts (India)
Publisher: Mārg Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Mumbai
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9788185026909
Subjects: Cashmere shawls -- History; Cashmere shawls -- India -- History; Cashmere shawls -- Europe -- History
Other titles: Mārg̲.
Notes: "Published by Radhika Sabavala for Marg Publications on behalf of the National Centre for the Performing Arts"--T.p. verso.

"Vol. 60, nos. 3 and 4, March 2009"--T.p. verso; simultaneously issued in serial format as an issue of Mārg.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface and Acknowledgments
pagenum: 8; title: Introduction A Felicitous Conjunction
pagenum: 12; label: Part 1 THE FIBRE
title: Chapter 1 Pashm and Other Animal Fibres .... Toosh and the Tibetan Antelope
pagenum: 22; title: Chapter 2 Changra and Changpa: The Goats and their Herders by Monisha Ahmed
pagenum: 28; title: Chapter 3 From Changthang to Srinagar: The Pashm Trade ... The Trade in History ... The Contemporary Trade by Monisha Ahmed
pagenum: 36; label: Part 2 THE TEXTILE
title: Chapter 4 Spinners, Weavers, and Needleworkers
pagenum: 48; title: Chapter 5 Design and Designers
pagenum: 76; label: Part 3 THE HISTORY
title: Chapter 6 Early History: Conjecture and Speculation
pagenum: 142; title: Chapter 7 The Mughal Period
pagenum: 148; title: Chapter 8 The Iran Connection: the Termeh
pagenum: 164; title: Chapter 9 The Business in the 19th Century... Shawls in the Punjab
pagenum: 170; label: Part 4 BY LAND AND SEA
title: Chapter 10 The Kashmir Shawl in India
pagenum: 190; title: Chapter 11 The Kashmir Shawl in Iran, West Asia, and Russia
pagenum: 206; title: Chapter 12 Shawls in the West
pagenum: 218; label: Part 5 CASHMERE AND KASHMIR
title: Chapter 13 Beyond the Shawl: Pashmina Becomes Cashmere ..... The West Discovers the Fibre ... Cashmere: A Global Product ... Never out of Fashion: Cashmere Worldwide by Monisha Ahmed
pagenum: 242; title: Chapter 14 Meanwhile, Back in the Valley ...
pagenum: 254; title: Appendix I Myths, Misconceptions, and Oddities
pagenum: 268; title: Appendix II Terminology and Glossary
pagenum: 273; title: Notes and References
pagenum: 279; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 309; title: Picture Credits
pagenum: 313; title: Index
pagenum: 315