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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
pashmina and cashmere
The successes of productions marketed as pashmina – an Indo Nepali word for cashmere – has rocketed in recent years; yet most consumers aren’t sure what pashmina is. That’s not surprising, as pashmina is not a pronouncing term recognized by the Wool Act and rulers. Experts tell the Federal Trade Commission in USA there is no pashmina fiber that is isolate and distinct from the cashmere vulcanized fiber. Cashmere shawls are literally fabricated in Nepal and Kashmir for thousands of years. The trial for a timbre pashmina is warmness and feel. Pashmina and Cashmere are produced by mountain goats. One
Pashmina History
To understand and feel the real importance about Pashmina products, first it has to be started with its historical background. However, Pashmina history has been mentioned differently by different persons in different ways in different places. In this chapter, an attempt has been made to review Pashmina history mentioned by different people in their writings. Origin of Pashmina in Nepal started long back. The mountain people of Nepal depended on the fabric they had woven for warmth, for easy travel and for survival. In many high mountain areas and semi-tropical jungles, they continued to weave for their perfect protection and
what is pashmina?
Pashmina is known as the “diamond fiber” and the “soft gold of high Asia” is one of the finest, softest and warmest wool found in nature. Pashmina is a pure Nepali word which comes from ‘pashm’. Pashm means inside hairs of CapraHircus.Pashmina is sometimes called ‘shamina’,’cashmere’ and sometimes it confused with ‘shatoosh’. Both Pashmina and Cashmere wool comes from CapraHircus wool and Shatoosh wool is comes from Tibetan antelopes. However, Pashmina is unlikely than Cashmere and Shatoosh. It’s wool is most finest, softest and warmest than Cashmere wool.Pashmina wool is comes from under belly of Caprahircus (chyngra), the mountain goat
