Pashmina Ring Shawl – 90x200cm – 100% Cashmere – Blackberry Cordial

This plum pashmina shawl is a deep, velvety purple with a hint of red, the kind of dark colour that still looks warm. Woven in very fine cashmere, it settles into soft folds where the plum looks almost black, and lightens towards red-violet where the cloth spreads across the shoulders.

The yarn is single-ply, 60-count pure cashmere, so fine that roughly 60 metres weigh a gram. Our cashmere comes from Inner Mongolia, with long fibres 14–16 microns across. It is woven into a light box weave, fine enough to pass through a ring, and finished with hand-twisted tassels at both ends. At 90 × 200 cm it is a full shawl: open across the back for an autumn wedding, or doubled into a deep scarf.

Kate bought this colour to replace one she had lost “but couldn’t live without”, and calls the colour “just so rich”. Tonia found it “beautiful quality, fabulous colour”, and another buyer describes it as light as a feather. A few buyers of other colours found the shade differed from the photo, so the swatchbook is worth ordering if you need a close match.