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Pashmina India

Pashmina India deals in Acrylic, Wool, Silk, Pashmina Shawls, Stoles, Scarf - Festival Sale

April 6, 2006

GLOSSARY

Pashmina - According to the Oxford English Dictionary , pashm , from the Persian word for "wool," refers to the underfur of certain Tibetan animals, particularly goats, commonly used for the making of shawls.
It is finest grade of cashmere that is  a short, thin inner layer hair from Himalayan goats of 12-14 microns thick

Loft - Tiny air spaces trapped between the individual fibers.

Hand or handle - The feel of the finished product.

Ply - Another word for strand. The number of strands twisted together to form the yarn tells you the number of plys.

Pashm - Pashm is the wool of capra hircus, an Asian species of mountain goat.

Pashmin India is exporters of high quality pashminas, wool, silk shawls, stole scraf wraps to USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, , Switzerland, France, Japan, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Austria, Holland, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, Spain, Russia, Denmark, Norway, Hong Kong, Philipines, Taiwan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey, Iran, Dubai, Mexico, Brazil.