Unlike regular pashmina shawls, Kani pieces are woven not with a shuttle, but with small wooden bobbins or needles—known as kanis. Dr Saxena concurred, adding that the weaving is done using the Twill ...

A worker keeps thread bobbins tucked in the waist of his trousers ... A weaver pulls a length of thread from a shuttle before feeding it to a power weaving loom Ishtaq Ahmad Ansari, 54, who used to ...

When he arrived in Bhiwandi as a 15-year-old boy, workshops weaving cloth on the looms were thriving, providing ready jobs for many unskilled workers from far-flung villages in north India.