Pashmina (material)
Fine subset of cashmere wool / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Pashmina (disambiguation).
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] for fine Kashmiri cashmere wool[6] or a synonym for 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]