How to Choose a Pashmina Shawl or Scarf

A quality pashmina shawl is an excellent addition to any wardrobe. Because of confusion over terminology and misleading labling, though, finding a pashmina that's truly high quality isn't always so easy. Here are some tips to help you get the best pashmina your budget will allow. What is pashmina anyway? A lot of the confusion about what pashmina is comes from people using the phrase "a pashmina" to refer to any type of large,...

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Pashmina Useful Tips

Pashmina shawls, pashmina stoles and other pashmina products can be delicately hand/machine washed in cold water with a light detergent such as woolite. You can also use comfortable warm water to wash your pashminas with a good, natural shampoo. They should then be rolled in a towel to remove excess water and laid flat to dry. During the dyeing process, all items are kept in water between 30 to 60 minutes at a temperature just below boiling, and are washed twice more, so do not fear washing pashmina in water. To remove wrinkles pashmina shawls...

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How Pashmina Shawls are made

The pashmina making process undergoes pain staking process and the entire process is done completely by hand.The pashmina wool is collected every spring from the Mountain goat "Chyangra" (Capra Hircus). Pashmina is the goat's soft underbelly down, which lies under the coarse and thick outer hair. Each goat produces only about 3 ounces or 80 grams of pashmina wool each year. One woven pashmina shawl require wool from about three goats, and is basically...

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Pashmina Kani Shawls

Kashmir Kani Shawl About Kashmir Shawls it is said: "of all Indian textiles none excels in beauty, colour, texture and design - the famous Kashmir Shawl". Shawls are produced by two techniques, loom woven or kani shawls and the needle embroidered or sozni shawls. The basic fabric is of the three types - Shah Tush, Pashmina and Raffal. Shah Tush (King of wool) passes through a ring and is also known as Ring shawl. It comes from a rare Tibetan...

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How to identify Pure and Fake Pashmina?

Pashmina is actually Fine Cashmere . Pashmina is name given to Cashmere yarn that is 12 to 16 microns in thickness. There is no such material as Viscose Pashmina or Silk Pashmina. Please See what Wiki says about Pashmina as well and read below how some companies are ruining the perfect product like Pashmina and marketing Viscose/Acrylic scarves as PASHMINA. In many countries (western) and even in India Pashmina shawls are sold very...

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What is Pashmina?

These Pashmina Shawls works of wearable art were first envisioned and fashioned within Kashmir centuries ago. They have taken generations of skill, finesse and patience to develop. It is from Kashmirthat our Pashmina Shawls weaving firm continues to bring to you, our customers, this exquisite, hand woven, and elegant line. Pashmina comes from the Persian word for wool, known in the West ascashmere...

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