TO GO WITH; PAKISTAN-INDIA-INDUSTRY-WOOL-CULTURE-FASHION FEATURE BY SAJJAD QAYYUM In this photograph taken on June 9, 2013, Pakistani weaver Hidayat Ullah works at a manual loom to make a shawl in his two-room wooden house high in the Grace Valley in Kashmir, some 175 kilometres from Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan Kashmir. Weavers have produced exquisite shawls in Kashmir for centuries, but their craft risks dying out in the face of cheap foreign imports and a young generation uninterested in mastering the skill. AFP PHOTO/ Sajjad QAYYUM
Pashmina industries fade in Kashmir.
IN his two-room wooden house high in the beautiful Grace Valley in Kashmir, Hidayat Ullah weaves at a manual paddle loom. Asked how he learned the craft, he gestures to a frail, wizened old man coughing on a bed in the corner.
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