Pashmina What is pashmina actually? Nowdays the definition is a little bit blurred. The pashmina is an umbrella term and almost every fashionable scarf, shawl, or stole independently from being natural, synthetic or the fineness of the fabric, they are all equally called pashmina on the market. The „ Pashmina ” is a persian word, originally „ Pashmineh ”, which means „ made of wool ” . The base material of pashmina and cashmere comes from the indigenous Changthangian or Pashmina mountain goats' fur, they live in the high altitude regions in Nepal and India. To survive the freezing cold, the goats have to grow an especially soft inner fur, which is 6 times finer than the human hair. For this reason, due to the thin cross-section, cashmere fibers cannot be twisted by machine, so cashmere products can only be made from hand-spun wool and hand-woven. Their subtlety is shown by the fact that they can be easily drawn through a ring, hence the name „ Ring-pashmina ”. For better handling, cashmere wool was later blended with silk. These warm and soft fashion accessories have been manufactured in Kashmir and Nepal for thousands of years. In Nepal it was called ” pashmina ” and in Kashmir it was called ” Kashmiri woolen cloth ”. Both are basically the same, only different names are used. In our webstore you can find the original cashmere stoles and scarves made of silk and quality sheep wool or a mixture of these; the latter are also of high quality, but much more affordable. We import our products from the homeland of pashmina, India and Turkey. |