Pashmina Shawl
The pashmina shawl is the fine, handwoven woollen shawl of Kashmir, made from the downy underfleece of the Changthangi goat that grazes the high plateaus of Ladakh and western Tibet. The word pashmina derives from pashm, Persian for the softest animal fibre, and the cleaned wool, only about fifteen microns thick, is spun by hand and woven on a handloom in Srinagar and the valley workshops, a craft that has produced some of the world's most expensive cloth. The shawl was already a luxury good at the courts of the Mughals, who wore and commissioned them, and Kashmiri weaving of fine wool was fur