This beautiful shawl will add a touch of elegance to any wardrobe and it is the perfect way to keep warm during winter times. This cashmere shawl has been handknitted from the finest down of goats in the region of Orenburg near Russia's Ural Mountains and skillfully embroidered with yellow ornaments. The Orenburg shawls are valuable not only because of the wool, but of the technique of spinning and of course knitting. Indeed the knitting is fascinating. 100% wool
Russian Orenburg Shawls have natural colors of the goats and can be white, grey or brown. Prices depend on size, on quality of threads used for making of the shawls and, of course, on quality of work. Each woman makes her own shawls with her own lacy ornaments and patterns.
In Russia with cold and long winters women used to wear these shawl everyday especially in country area. Each woman has at least two shawls - one for everyday usage and other one for holidays.Nowadays the main part of Orenburg shawls, scarves, tippets, cobwebs are knitted by hand, only most labour-intensive and routine operation are made by machines. It allows knitters to concentrate only on creative operation of shawl knitting. The fact that some operations are machine made does not degrade quality of shawls and specific features of real hand-made Orenburg shawls but makes these items more perfect.
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