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  2. Pashmina (material) - Wikipedia

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    In the consumer markets, pashmina shawls have been redefined as a shawl/wrap with cashmere and cashmere/silk, notwithstanding the actual meaning of pashmina. Some shawls marketed as pashmina shawls contain (sheep) wool, [21] while other unscrupulous companies marketed artificial fabrics such as viscose and others as "pashmina" with deceptive ...

  3. 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 ).

  4. Cashmere wool - Wikipedia

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    A boy's frock produced c. 1855 in Kashmir; cashmere wool twill with silk embroidery and silk tassels. 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 ]

  5. Kashmiri handicrafts - Wikipedia

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    Emperor Akbar was a great admirer of Kashmiri shawls. It was he who began the fashion of wearing two shawls, sewn back to back, so that the under surfaces of the shawls were never seen. During that time the most desired shawls were those worked in gold and silver thread or shawls with border ornamented with fringes of gold, silver and silk thread.

  6. Shahtoosh - Wikipedia

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    Blended fabrics of shahtoosh and pashmina are designated differently according to the proportions: Shurah Dani = 100% Shahtoosh, Bah Dani = 75% Shahtoosh and 25% Pashmina, Aeth Dani = 50% Shahtoosh (as warp) and 50% Pashmina (as weft). [9] Shawls for women are often 2 m × 1 m in size and weigh circa 100 g, while shawls for men are often 3 m × ...

  7. Shawl - Wikipedia

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    Hence the shawls came to be called Pashmina. The fine fleece used for the shawls is that which grows under the rough, woolly, outer coat of the animal; that from the under-belly, which is shed on the approach of hot weather. Materials of an inferior grade were of the wool of the wild Himalayan mountain sheep or the Himalayan ibex. However, the ...

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