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The word pashm, from the Persian word for "wool," refers to the under fur of certain Ladakhi Changthangi or a Pashmina Goat, commonly used for the making of shawls. This changthangi or a pashmina goat, a breed from Ladakhi Changthang raised for pashmina, the softest, most luxurious and the best wool in the world, once woven, This goat survives in Ladakh at the altitude of 12000 feet where temperature drops below 40 degree centigrade and grows a thick warm fleece, a unique very thin short inner coat of hair which is the best insulation in the world and this is pashmina. Pashmina fiber is 15 to 19 microns in diameter where as a human hair is 75 microns in diameter. One goat produces 3 to 8 ounces of pashmina per year. The pashmina as shawl or Pashmina Shawl is a simple piece of fabric but its beauty is enhanced and adored only once a craftsman works on it, and makes it colorful with motifs of traditional Kashmir flowers and colors for months together to make embroideries, that is how the pashmina shawl is renowned world over . |
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