CONTENTS 

Preface and Acknowledgements 

Maps

Introduction  "A Felicitous Conjunction"


Part 1 THE FIBRE 
Chapter 1	Pashm and Other Animal Fibres
	Toosh and the Tibetan Antelope 
Chapter 2 	Changra and Changpa: The Goats and 
	Their Herders 							Monisha Ahmed 
Chapter 3 	From Changthang to Srinagar: 
	The Pashm Trade
	The Trade in History 
	The Contemporary Trade  	Monisha Ahmed

Part 2 THE TEXTILE 
Chapter 4 	Spinners, Weavers, and 
	Needleworkers 
	Assembled and Recycled Shawls
Chapter 5 	Design and Designers

Part 3 THE HISTORY 
Chapter 6 	Early History: Conjecture and 
	Speculation 
Chapter 7 	The Mughal Period
Chapter 8 	The Iran Connection: the Termeh 
Chapter 9 	The Business in the 19th Century
	Shawls in the Punjab

Part 4 BY LAND AND SEA 
Chapter 10The Kashmir Shawl in India 
Chapter 11 The Kashmir Shawl in Iran, West Asia, 
	and Russia 
Chapter 12 Shawls in the West

Part 5 CASHMERE AND KASHMIR
Chapter 13 Beyond the Shawl: Pashmina Becomes 
	Cashmere 
	The West Discovers the Fibre 
	Cashmere: A Global Product 
	Never out of Fashion: 
	Cashmere Worldwide  			Monisha Ahmed 
Chapter 14 Meanwhile, Back in the Valley … 

Appendix I  Myths, Misconceptions, and Oddities 
Appendix II  Terminology and Glossary 
Notes and References 
Bibliography 
Picture Credits 
Index