FANTASTIC GIFT IDEAS

Watch this video to get some great ideas on gifts for Christmas, weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, Valentines, or Mother's day!

Our pure silk scarves, pashminas and wool shawls will become great reminders of your love.

Alenska has become an official distributor of the largest Russian scarfs manufacturer - Pavlovsky Posad.

The fashionable wearing of a silk and wool shawl came to Russia from the Middle East at the beginning of 19c. Shawls became a smart supplement to a female costume as well as a part of interior décor. The shawls and scarves were among family treasures handed down from generation to generation.

In the 1860s, Pavlovsky Posad women’s scarves and pashminas were regularly supplied to the Grand Duchess of Russia.

Up until the 1920s all shawls and scarfs were printed manually due to their large size, multicolour and complex patterns. Patterns were carved on large wooden boards, one for each colour. Typically it required at least three boards to complete one pattern, but sometimes there were up to 16 of them.

All designs were split into 4 to 24 fragments. The most complex designs required up to 400 applications to create one shawl wrap. Every single wool shawl, one by one, was treated by at least 18 workers to complete the full cycle.

Search through our store to buy our amazing pure silk scarves and wool shawls and wraps.