thin and expensive fibre which are popular as kashniri?
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Pashmina is the finest grade of Cashmere fibre. Note that it's the local Kashmiri word for Cashmere and only in the West did people call Pashmina as Cashmere owing to its geographic origin. Pashmina products were made first in Kashmir with raw material coming from Ladakh and Tibetan Changthang.
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Thin and expensive fibre which are popular as Kashmir is called pashmina.
- Pashmina is an example of an animal fibre which is obtained from goats, precisely, Changthangi goats. They are domesticated to obtain the pashmina fibre.
- It is a very thin and delicate fibre and ranges around 12 to 16 microns in diameter.
- The steps of combing, spinning, weaving, etc are carried out manually by the people of Kashmir and it is a very expensive fibre.
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