Cashmere Shawl

Pashmina cashmere shawls and scarves are of better quality and manufactured in Kashmir (http://www.kashmirstorz.com)

Best of Kashmir shawls produced today are made from soft and downy undercoat that grows mainly on the neck and belly of the mountain goat of the Himalayas, Capra hircus. Although the fine wool of various grades are commonly marketed in the West as "Cashmere", the name will give the Kashmiris the fiber is Capra hircus Pashm, which is the Persian word for "wool". "Pashmina" is Pashm woven in its form, the highest quality of cashmere, and Capra hircus is often called pashmina goats.

Pashm has a special luster because of its long thin fibers, which are as thin as 12 microns, however, the fibers of premium wool as Merino Extrafine is 23 microns thick, and hair of Human distances up to 200 microns thick. As pashmina is exceptionally light, soft and warm and feels luxurious on the skin. Natural colors range from white to gray fleece, red, brown and black.

The growth of the fine, hot Pashm is an adaptive response to the terrain severely battered by winds and winter temperatures falling as low as minus 30 degrees Celsius (-22 ° F).


What makes Kashmir shawls above is not only the fineness of fibers Pashm individual, but also the meticulous cleaning, sorting, waxing and hand spinning. They are all manual trades, perfected by women of Kashmir and handed down from generation to generation since the late 16th century when the Moghul emperors began to encourage industry shawl.

The lovely valley of Kashmir has always been famous for its handicrafts. The port of tapestry shawls was introduced in the valley of Turkistan by Zain-ul-Abdin, the rule of Kashmir, in the 15th century. Production under the patronage of the Mughal rulers like Akbar and his successors, who wore these shawls and also because of patronage of local government.

The competence, experience and the time it takes to produce high quality pashmina are the reasons for its high cost. Workers harvesting of soft undercoat of goats upper Himalayas during the moulting period when they lose their winter coats over. Weavers separate the soft undercoat and much shorter for quality, a comb and hand it Spin traditional spinning wheels. Weaving, once done by hand on traditional trades. A high quality pashmina can take up to three days to complete because of the sensitivity of the son for the material used to create woven.

Hand-embroidered in Kashmir typical point, which is so famous in the world. We can not even imagine the amount of work went into this room to embroider beautiful, truly a masterpiece, could be fed forever.The embroidery is so fine and complex, it takes months to embroider a ground just fine. Graceful and eye-catching, this luxury shawl handwoven pashmina semi in the Kashmir Valley, India, and sold at very steep, even in India.