Srinagar, India
House of Naqash is a rug and crewel maker at Malik Sahib, Safa Kadal, in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. The company is a member of the Export Promotion Council for Handicrafts. It makes chain stitch and crewel rugs across some 53 designs, along with crewel fabrics, cushions, curtains and throws, working in silk, wool, cotton and pashmina and in the naqashi, crewel, chain stitch and sozni techniques. The business spans three generations and more than seventy years.
Chain stitch and crewel rugs, crewel fabrics, cushions, curtains, throws
Rugs hook worked in wool on a cotton ground so that the pile forms unbroken chains across the whole surface. The house shows 53 designs in the range, running from classic Kashmiri medallions and garden motifs to modern art pieces, and makes them to custom sizes and palettes.
Cushion covers embroidered by hand on silk and cotton grounds using crewel and sozni needlework. The house lists 82 designs, all worked by hand in Srinagar and made to order in custom sizes and colour palettes.
Cotton furnishing fabric hand embroidered in crewel wool, the Kashmiri needlework the house is built on. Forty five designs are offered and can be made in custom palettes for upholstery and soft furnishing use.
Curtains hand embroidered in crewel wool on a cotton ground, cut and made to the window sizes a customer supplies. Nine designs are shown in the range and every panel is embroidered by hand rather than by machine.
Throws worked in crewel embroidery and finished by hand in the Srinagar workshop. They are made to order alongside the cushion and curtain ranges and can be matched to the same palettes.
1 recorded shipments · first shipment 2026 · latest shipment May 2026 · buyers include Birdie Fortescue