Pashmina Fiber

 

 

Pashmina wool is also known as Cashmere wool. It is the softest, most luxurious and the best wool to spin and to wear!

 

The wool is collected from a special goat that is found in the Himalayan region. This goat, Capra Hircus, lives at the altitude of 12000 feet where temperature drops below 40 degree centigrade.  It is blessed by nature with a unique very thin short inner coat of hair. The Himalayan goat is  survived in the  surrounding extreme cold because of this nature gifted hair! This inner coat of hair is known as PASHMINA.

 

 

 

1.       Pashmina fiber is 15 to 19 microns in diameter where as a human hair is 75 microns in diameter.

2.       One Himalayan goat produces 3 to 8 ounce s of Pashmina per year.

3.       Pashmina is the finest wool shorn from the soft undercoat (neck and belly) of Himalayan mountain goats.

4.       This feather light fiber is extraordinarily soft and light, yet exceptionally warm.

5.       The pashmina wool is collected every spring.

6.       The raw wool is treated by stretching and cleaning it to remove any dirt and is soaked for a few days in a mixture of rice and water to make it softer.

7.       The treated wool is hanspun into yarn using the Charkha (Spinning wheel). Hand-spinning Pashmina into yarn is an extremely painstaking task because of soft and delicate nature of the wool.

8.       100% Pashmina refers to the pure Pashmina wool and no other fiber is blended into it.