Pashmina Ring Shawl – 90x200cm – 100% Cashmere – Steeple Grey

This grey cashmere shawl is a light, soft grey, cool but never cold, with a faint lilac tint that comes out in daylight. Because the cloth is so fine, the colour looks airy rather than flat, which is why it sits so easily beside pastels, navy and soft pink.

Our cashmere comes from Inner Mongolia and is spun into a single-ply, 60-count yarn so fine that about 60 metres weigh a gram. Woven in a light box weave, the full 90 × 200 cm shawl is fine enough to pass through a ring, yet covers the whole back when worn open. It is unbrushed, so it softens with use, and both ends carry hand-twisted tassels. In this colour the ring weave also comes as a 70 × 200 cm stole.

Anne, who bought this colour, calls it “so soft and warm to snuggle into” and saw it as a “light warm grey”, though we would call it cool. Colour is personal, and a few buyers of other colours found their shade differed from the photo; if the exact grey matters, order the swatchbook before you choose.