Angelweave Pashmina – 90% Cashmere / 10% Silk – 55x200cm – Gloxinia

Gloxinia is a rich magenta purple, and as a magenta pashmina in Angelweave it has a velvety depth: the hand-spun cashmere weft gives the cloth a gently irregular texture, and the silk warp lifts the colour with a soft sheen where the light catches it. Black, charcoal or grey let it stand out.

The blend is 90% cashmere and 10% silk, woven with a silk warp and a hand-spun cashmere weft. This slimmer stole measures 55 × 200 cm: open, it reaches across most of the back, and doubled through its own loop it keeps the soft cashmere close against your neck. It suits evening parties and theatre trips, when you want colour without weight. Handmade in Nepal.

Claire, who has given Angelweave as a gift, called this colour “absolutely beautiful” and, in a later review, “heavenly”. Buyers of other colours describe the same feel; Kath calls hers “very soft, excellent quality”. The yarn for the weft is spun by hand in Kathmandu, so the cloth is slightly uneven, and that irregular texture is part of the character of every Angelweave stole.