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2. Pashmina (material) - Wikipedia

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   In common parlance today, pashmina may refer either to the material or to the variant of the Kashmir shawl that is made from it. [9] Both cashmere and pashmina come from the same goat but typical cashmere ranges from 12 to 21 microns in diameter, whereas pashmina can also refer to a cashmere and silk blend (70% / 30%) that has a typical fiber ...

3. Cashmere wool - Wikipedia

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   Cashmere has been manufactured in Mongolia, Nepal and Kashmir for thousands of years. The fiber is also known as pashm (Persian for wool) or pashmina (Persian/Urdu word derived from Pashm) for its use in the handmade shawls of Kashmir. [11] References to woolen shawls appear in texts surviving from between the 3rd century BC and the 11th ...

4. Kashmir shawl - Wikipedia

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   The Kashmir shawl, the predecessor of the contemporary cashmere shawl, is a type of shawl identified by its distinctive Kashmiri weave and for being made of fine shahtoosh or pashmina wool. Contemporary variants include the pashmina and shahtoosh shawls (often mononymously referred to simply as the pashmina and shahtoosh ).

5. Shahtoosh - Wikipedia

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   Shahtoosh shawl Shahtoosh is made from chiru fur. Shahtoosh (from Persian شاهتوش 'king of wools'), [1] also known as Shatoush, is a wool obtained from the fur of the chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii, also called Tibetan antelope). Also, shawls made from the wool of the chiru are called shahtoosh. Shahtoosh is the finest animal wool, followed ...

6. Changthangi - Wikipedia

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   These goats provide the wool for Kashmir's famous pashmina shawls. Shawls made from Pashmina wool are considered very fine, and are exported worldwide. The Changthangi goats have revitalised the poor economy of Changthang, Ladakh where the wool production generates more than $8 million a year. [8]: 83

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   Oren and Alon Alexander were also facing separate sexual battery charges in Miami Beach, according to arrest warrants made public Wednesday afternoon. "Oren Alexander is innocent," his lawyer ...