The lift doors at Maqam: two painted leaves of flowers on gold, meeting at the centre

Maqam, a pashmina house in RajBagh, Srinagar

The finest textiles and handicrafts · RajBagh, Srinagar

Inside the house

  1. Welcome to MAQAM, home of the finest cashmere in the world.
  2. MAQAM brings together the finest textiles and handicrafts Kashmir has to offer.
  3. We look forward to welcoming you and sharing our heritage.

Four floors, one house.

First Floor

The Karkhana

This is where our spinners, weavers, embroiderers and clippers manufacture our cashmere.

The first floor at Maqam: a weaver at the kani loom and a spinner at the yinder, beside stained-glass windows
Blue abstract painting on canvas by Mahvash Masood
Painting on canvas by Mahvash Masood
A traditional wooden charkha with a green spinning wheel
A traditional charkha, used to spin fibre into yarn.

Second Floor

The Concept Store

Discover our cashmere collection, including sozni embroidery and kani weaving.

Folded pashmina shawls in the blue glass cabinets on the second floor
Shawls hanging in the arched alcove of the second-floor room

Third Floor

Culture and Arts Space

Here we host artists and artisans that we collaborate with and show their works.

The third floor: painted shawls hung between white arches, glass lanterns, rolled carpets along the walls and a carpet on the floor
Glass lanterns and carved wooden columns along Maqam’s veranda

Basement

The crafts of Kashmir

Downstairs, discover a curated collection of Kashmiri handicrafts including paper mache, copperware, and wood carvings.

Copper pitchers, bowls and trays, with carved wooden boxes on the basement shelves
Colourfully painted paper-mache vases, boxes and trays displayed in Maqam’s basement

Srinagar in every stitch

Srinagar’s river, streets and gardens, stitched by hand. This map is made in sozni on pashmina, a Kashmiri tradition of fine needle embroidery.

A framed map of Srinagar worked in sozni embroidery: the river winds between densely embroidered buildings, gardens and streets

Srinagar in sozni

The embroidered map of Srinagar, shown in full
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The house is in RajBagh, opposite Convent School.

Look for the carved wooden balconies and the blue door.

Maqam
RajBagh, Srinagar 190008
Jammu and Kashmir

Open daily 10:30am–6:30pm

Maqam’s blue entrance beneath its sign and carved wooden balconies