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                                                   Pashmina (cashmere)


The word ‘Pashmina’ comes from Persian Etiology "Pashm” which means  "made from wool” or a soft gold. it is a fine delicate  type of Kashmiri wool taken from the changtha Goats of Ladakh in Jammu kashmir.European were the first who encountered this fiber-Pashm" in kashmir.in west the pashmina is known as "cashmere".The textiles from this wool is first woven in kashmir. The source of this wool comes from four distinct breeds of the cashmere goat; the Malra from Kargil area in kashmir region,The Changthangi or kashmir pashmina goat from the Changthang Plateau in kashmir region,The Chegu from himachal Pradesh in northern india,and Chyangara or Nepalese Pashmina goat from nepal.The beauty of these shawls is that they are hand spun and hand woven



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The raw pashmina coming from sources is full of dust and other impurities, slightly greasy and mixed with the coarse outer hair of goat, in working with these fine delicate materials the skill of kashmiri spinners reach its peak the kind of passion they show to remove the dust and other impurities from raw pashmina to make it yarn is exceptional. The first task is to rid it of the coarse hair. This is done by hand ,each small tuft of the pashmina being teased out and the hairs removed one by one .in the process , naturally a great deal of dust also comes out . The unorganised nature of this sector actually allows house bounded women’s to work from their home they are the bosses of their own time another thing happen with unorganised sector the skill which motherposses naturally transferred to his daughter because the spinning is not a 10am to 4pm job .

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The traditional mechanism used is comb which cleanise the  fibers for spinning ,the kashmiri  spinning wheel or “yender” is used to spun the raw pashmina, but nowadays machines are used to spun the material raw pashmine, but still people use old techniques to spun the raw materials

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  1. William Toribio31 July 2021 at 02:27

    Thanks for sharing this interesting history of pashmina.

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  2. Jones Hill7 August 2021 at 04:29

    Stay and Look “Hot & Happening” this winter with Extra-Soft and Certified Premium Quality pure pashmina shawls.

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  3. Unknown21 August 2021 at 04:44

    Thanks for this informative post. It's very detailed and solves a lot of my doubts about Pashmina Goat Project.

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