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پشمینہ · Pashmina Weaving

Ghulam Hassan Lone

5th Generation · Pashmina Weaving · Kanihama, Budgam

1860+ · 5 gens

Weaves at four inches per day — the finest commercially available pashmina grade in Kashmir.

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Sanad Verified ✓
Pieces signed
408
Disputes
0
Workshop slots
8 open
Lineage est.
1860

The hand still remembers

What Only Ghulam Knows

Captured from his Vault — knowledge that exists nowhere else.

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Click a node — 4 techniques captured

Currently viewing · 1940s Srinagar Knot

His work

Pieces by Ghulam

Every piece signed, signed pieces verifiable on the Sanad.

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Book Time With Ghulam

8 open slots in the next month.

2–3 hours

Heritage Walk

Rs. 2,500per person

Visit the master's workshop and three nearby craft clusters with a Sanad-verified guide.

Max 8 participants

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4 hours

Half-Day Workshop

Rs. 6,000per person

Learn one foundational technique hands-on. Take home your attempt + a Hunarmand certificate.

Max 6 participants

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3 days

Multi-Day Masterclass

Rs. 45,000per person

Advanced technique taught directly by the master. Limited to 2 participants.

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The preserved knowledge

Preserved in the Vault

This is Ghulam's Craft DNA — knowledge captured for researchers, apprentices, and future generations.

Lineage

Family · place · year

  • Five generations on the same loom, set in the family's main room.
  • Lone-family talim sheets fill three trunks, kept in a cold-room.

Technique Walkthrough

How the work is made

  • Four inches a day; never more, never less.
  • Each shawl is signed by hand on the inside fold with a single Lone monogram.

Decision Knowledge

When to start, when to stop

  • If a day's weave shows uneven tension, the inches are unpicked at evening.
  • The loom is rested on Fridays — the family's choice.

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Where the materials begin

  • Wool from Changthang, posted in autumn from Leh.
  • Indigo and madder from a Pampore dyer he has worked with for forty years.

The thread, generation by generation

The Lone Lineage

5 generations on the same craft, since 1860.

  1. AL

    Abdul Rahim Lone

    ca. 1860s

    Generation 1

  2. ML

    Mohammad Sultan Lone

    ca. 1890s

    Generation 2

  3. AL

    Abdul Ghaffar Lone

    ca. 1920s

    Generation 3

  4. AL

    Ali Mohammad Lone

    ca. 1950s

    Generation 4

  5. GL

    Ghulam Hassan Lone

    current — present

    Generation 5