Pashmina (material)

For other uses, see Pashmina (disambiguation).
The Mandala Chandar (c. 1840, detail) is an unusual Kashmiri tantric moon shawl (chandar) with a mandala in the centre from which radiates zoomorphic tendrils, filled with multi-coloured millefleurs on a pink ground.

Pashmina (/pʌʃˈmiːnə, pæʃ-/, also US: /pɑːʃ-/)[1][2][3][4] refers to, depending on the source, the cashmere wool of the Changthangi cashmere goat,[5] fine Kashmiri cashmere wool,[6] or any cashmere wool.[7]

The word pashm means "wool" in Persian, but in Kashmir, pashm referred to the raw unspun wool of domesticated Changthangi goats.[8] In common parlance today, pashmina may refer either to the material or to the variant of the Kashmir shawl that is made from it.[9] Both cashmere and pashmina come from the same goat but typical cashmere ranges from 12 to 21 microns in diameter, whereas pashmina can also refer to a cashmere and silk blend (70% / 30%) that has a typical fiber range from 12 to 16 microns.[10]

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  2. ^ "pashmina". Collins English Dictionary (13th ed.). HarperCollins. 2018. ISBN 978-0-008-28437-4.
  3. ^ "Definition of pashmina | Dictionary.com". www.dictionary.com. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
  4. ^ "pashmina". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins.
  5. ^ Janet Rizvi: Pashmina: The Kashmir Shawl and Beyond. Marg Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-8185026909.
  6. ^ Robert R. Franck: Silk, Mohair, Cashmere and Other Luxury Fibres. Volume 19 of Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles, Elsevier Science, 2001. ISBN 978-1855735408. p. 142.
  7. ^ D B Shakyawar; A S M Raja; Ajay Kumar; P K Pareek; S A Wani (2013). "Pashmina fibre - Production, characteristics, utilisation". researchgate.net. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  8. ^ Skarratt, Ben (August 2018). "From India to Europe: The Production of the Kashmir Shawl and the Spread of the Paisley Motif" (PDF). Global History of Capitalism Project.
  9. ^ "Pashmina". Cambridge English Dictionary. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
  10. ^ "Identification Guidelines for Shahtoosh and Pashmina" (PDF). US Fish and Wildlife Service: National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory, Ashland, Oregon. 2002. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 March 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2020.