Farooq Ahmed, of downtown Srinagar, who has mastered the fusion art of the traditional making Kashmiri Namda with nuno felting has taken it a step further to create silk scarves with nuno felting technique. Farooq Ahmed is the only artist in India who has merged these two techniques to produce Namdas, silk scarves etc. It took him nearly two years to learn this skill, and was assisted by a Delhi-based designer in learning this technique.

The sheep wool is sourced from Ludhiana (which is also used for the semi-pashmina shawls) while the fine silk (passes through a ring) is produced in the local factory in Srinagar, earlier a private enterprise now taken over by the government.

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