| Pashmina is made from the finest cashmere wool in the world. It is combed from the underside of the Himalayan Mountain Goat, which are indigenous to the mountains of Central Asia. Pashmina has been valued for centuries throughout Asia and the Middle East, and the wonderful qualities of pashmina are now making it just as popular in the West. Please rest assured that no animals are harmed in the making of pashmina. Our pashmina shawls are remarkably soft and light, considering how much warmth they provide. Our customers tell us how much they love their stoles, and we know you will receive many compliments when you wear them. ?Pashmina? is the Persian word for pashm meaning finest wool fibre, the ?soft gold? king of fibers. Every summer, Himalayan farmers climb the mountains to comb the fine woolen undercoat from the neck and chest of, himalayan mountain pashm, not to be confused with the endangered Tibetan antelope that is killed to produce shatoosh shawls. To survive the freezing 14,000 ft-altitude environment, grows a unique, incredibly soft pashm, inner coat, six times finer than human hair. Because it is only 14-19 microns in diameter, it cannot be spun by machines, so the downy wool is hand-woven into shawls for export, predominantly to America and Europe. Although they have been popular with aristocracy in Southern Asia since the 15th Century, pashmina sales in the West suddenly took off in 1998 when designers in London, Paris and New York started to include them in their fashion collections. Since then the growing demand has helped push the price down to an affordable level.
Woven: This soft and high quality pashmina product is woven by the best pashmina weaver in Nepal. Note:
Please note the actual fabric colors may vary due to differences in monitor colour depth and make. The colour shown is as close as possible to the actual colours of the stoles. |
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