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Advice for First-Time Sunrise Shoppers

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The good news is that, with a few modest exceptions, we sell only pashmina wraps. The bad news is that, within our very limited product line, there are a lot of choices. In addition, we have a ton of non-essential verbiage on this Web site. Let's start with the essential.

Renata with Ombre 100% pashmina shawl
(Click for larger image)

First, if you are looking for a gift, you should consider a gift certificate.

You can make the certificate as specific as you want (to control your costs), or you can make it open-ended.
Your gift will be on time (since we can send a printable file by return email).
You will confer the additional gift of creativity, rather than foisting your own (admittedly impeccable) sense of color and design on your friend). In other words, she'll have to deal with these mind-twisting options, and you can move on to the next person on your gift list.

General Advice

Once you have decided that you really do want to order a pashmina wrap, you should decide on size, fabric, and color. Then consider customizations. All the information you'll need is in the second pull-down menu from the left. Here's our advice:

Go for full-size. Our so-called medium is the same generous length and only a bit narrower. The added width of the full-size gives you more flexibility in folding and draping. As for the length, you might consider that the women of Nepal are probably a lot more petite than you are, and this is the size they prefer.
If you're buying for a woman with sophisticated tastes, definitely choose the 100% pashmina. It is much much much more scrumptious than the 70/30.
On the other hand, the 70/30 is extremely popular, both because of its additional strength and its elegant drape. AND... you can embroider the pashmina-silk blends (unlike the 100%).
The "compact muffler" is pretty small. Nice, but small.
You can order the shawl without fringes, but that's kind of like getting a Persian cat or a collie and docking the tail. The hangie-down things may seem a bit de trop, but they're really the product hallmark.
Baby blankets are easy -- not so many choices. (Okay, there is the whole reproductive complication, but right now we're just thinking about the blanket part.)
Our most popular colors are black, ivory, dove gray, pale lilac, baby blue, petal pink, and crimson. Our personal favorites are cobalt, fire-engine red, and deep grape.
Embroidery is yummy, and not so expensive as you might guess. You can choose your colors, which is fun, and then you can tell people you designed it yourself.
Beading adds a bit of bling, and is also very inexpensive.
Ombre (two-toned gradient dying) is really cool. Long-to-long makes more sense (to us) than narrow-to-narrow. We prefer colors that are related, such as camel and chocolate, medium gray and charcoal, lilac and grape.
You can order pretty much whatever colors you want. (See below)

How to Order

Ordering is a bit counter-intuitive. That's because there are so many choices that we can't program our shopping cart to accommodate them all on a push-button basis. So, what you do is go to the ordering page, and click on the size and fabric you need. Then, once you are inside the shopping cart, you specify color by writing the thread color number(s) (from our thread color charts) or conventional color name(s) in the Ordering Instructions textbox on the second page of the Shopping Cart. That's where you'll also specify embroidery, beading, ombre, and fringe customizations. You can also specify a message to be included with a gift, or whatever else comes to mind.

The provisional receipt does not indicate that payment has actually been processed. We have to calculate the costs of customizations, send you a confirmation letter, and then process payment manually when the entire transaction has been ironed out.

Don't hesitate to email (info@sunrise-pashmina.com) or call us (607 256-0102) with your questions. We like chatting with our customers. (Of course, we can be all-business, if you're in a rush.)

Empar, Fafner, and the Sundari print Pashmina Shawl

Sunrise Pashmina's Internet distribution office:
511 W. Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
Call us at (607) 256-0102. Night or day.
If we can't answer immediately, we'll get back to you. Soon.
Or email us at info@sunrise-pashmina.com