About Pashmina Fabric

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 in the remote region of Himalayas above 10000 feet and inner Mongolian highlands , where is little vegetation and extremely cold winters. The hardly little goat Caprahircus live there. Nature blessed them with a very thin coat of hair, which is best insulation in the world. This inner hair is used to produce Pashmina.Each Pashmina hair is 1/6^th diameter of human hair. It means Pashmina hair is only 12-14 microns thick. So Pashmina fabric is delicate and so fine that it can passes through a ring. Thus it is known as ring Pashmina. Pashmina is not only a finest, warmest and softest texture but also exotically silky texture. However, it may be called that Pashmina is an amazing exotic gift of nature.