| Chapter No. | Chapter Title | Chapter Author | Page No. |
| Part 1 | The Fibre | | |
| Chapter 1 | Pashm and other Animal Fibres | | 22 |
| Chapter 2 | Changra and changpa : the goats and their herders | Monisha Ahmed | 28 |
| Chapter 3 | From changthang to Srinagar : the Pashm Trade | Monisha Ahmed | 36 |
| Part 2 | The Textile | | |
| Chapter 4 | Spinners, Weavers, and Needleworkers | | 48 |
| Chapter 5 | Design and designers | | 76 |
| Part 3 | The History | | |
| Chapter 6 | Early History : conjecture and speculation | | 142 |
| Chapter 7 | The Mughal Period | | 148 |
| Chapter 8 | The Iran Connection : the Termeh | | 164 |
| Chapter 9 | The Business in the 19th Century | | 170 |
| Part 4 | By land and sea | | |
| Chapter 10 | The Kashmir Shawl in India | | 190 |
| Chapter 11 | The Kashmir Shawl in Iran, West Asia and Russia | | 206 |
| Chapter 12 | Shawls in the West | | 218 |
| Part 5 | Cashmere and Kashmir | | |
| Chapter 13 | Beyond the shawl: Pashmina Becomes Cashmere | Monisha Ahmed | 242 |
| Chapter 14 | Meanwhile, Back in the Valley | | 254 |
