Winter Weight Wavy Shawl – Melange Dark Grey – 100% Cashmere – 80x200cm

This dark grey cashmere shawl is a deep charcoal with a heathered finish: up close you can pick out lighter and darker flecks, and from across the room it settles into one smoky shade with a faint, cool greenish cast. The wavy weave adds texture to the plain colour.

It is woven from pure cashmere in a 4-ply, 28-count yarn, and the loom has to be specially rearranged to make the wavy pattern. The result is noticeably thicker and warmer. The cloth is not brushed, so the fibres stay long and strong and the shawl is hard-wearing. At 80 × 200 cm it covers the back and shoulders, or folds into a chunky wrap of a scarf. Made in Nepal.

Buyers of this shawl in other colours mostly talk about warmth and how they use it at home. Sue says it “feels really comforting around my shoulders when I read in bed”, and Kimberly finds it “thicker than a typical scarf” and uses it as “a wrap for watching TV, or as a lap blanket”. Melange Dark Grey also comes as a 60 × 190 cm herringbone pashmina.