what is pashmina?
What is pashmina? This question has been there since a decade, lots of people still searching in Google, yahoo and other search engine to know more and more about pashmina. Wikipedia has very nice analysis regarding pashmina in their website but it explanation is bit complicate so I am trying to simplified the definition here.
Pashmina is a fabric or wool that is produced from a mountain goat called “Carpahircus”. It’s available in high mountain area of Upper Mongolia, Tibet and Himalayas of Nepal & India. Pashmina is also known as cashmere in European market.
Cashmere shawls have been manufactured in Nepal and Kashmir (Disputed land of India and Pakistan) for thousand years. The qualities produced in Nepal and Kashmir is never similar, Kashmiri pashmina is bit heavy, not elegant but very soft and of classic looks where Nepali pashmina are lighter, soft and silky.
Research has shown that pashmina that is produced in Nepal are of best quality due to its natural diversity and the conditions to which the mountain goats are surviving.
Pashmina products are available in the name of 100% cashmere, pure pashmina, ring pashmina and more other names, the silk mixed pashmina which is very popular now a days are called silk pashmina, it’s defined by the percentage of its combination of silk and pashmina as 70% pashmina & 30% Silk, 80% pashmina & 20% silk.
Pashmina prices are higher and lower depending on the quality of the thread; it’s never easy to make differences in the qualities. In recent market the higher grade of 100 Count pure pashmina thread price is 300 USD per KG. And the 28 count pure pashmina thread price is 150 USD. Ring pashmina shown in the website of mywholesalepashmina.com is made of 100 count thread, and the price of it is 120 USD. From one KG thread of 100 count pashmina we are just able to make maximum 3 pieces of ring pashmina.
In world market you can also see the dubious pure pashmina and silk pashmina products which is available in 3-5 usd per piece which is mostly made in Punjab of India and China.
