Embroidered Pashmina

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Pashmina refers to a fine variant of spun cashmere the animal-hair fibre forming the downy undercoat of the Chanthangi goat.T he word pashm means "wool" in Persian, but in Kashmir, pash referred to the raw unspun wool of domesticated goat. In common parlance today, pashmina may refer either to the material or to the variant of the Kashmiri shawl that is made from it. Both generic cashmere and pashmina come from the same goat, but generic cashmere ranges from 12-21 microns in diameter, whereas pashmina refers only to those fibres that range from 12-16 microns. The Embroidery is usually done with needle sozni. These intricacies are Brocaded all over the Shawl/Stole.