Woven

Listing ID #4351750

Pashmina wool is the softest, most luxurious and the best wool in the world. Pashmina is the soft, thick undercoat that keeps the beautiful changra mountain goat warm through the freezing, high-altitude winters of Tibet and Ladakh. Its comes from Himalayan region as finest Kashmir wool which is derived at the altitudes of 12000 to 14000 ft from a special goat (Capra Hircus), where temperature goes down up to -40 degree centigrade. The thermo conductivity of the wool is the best in the world, as it survives the animal at minus 40 degree centigrade. The animal survives because of this nature’s gifted hair. Each spring it is gently and lovingly combed out by hand by the locals, so the animals are unperturbed. Then it is hand spun into gossamer-fine yarn on a 'charkha' (spinning wheel) and woven into fabric on ancient handlooms in the Kashmir Valley. All these processes are extremely complex and contribute to the amazing softness and luxuriant qualities of the end product. Pashmina fibre is less than 15-19 micron in thickness making it very soft (in comparison human hair is 75 microns thick).