the terms like stunning, exquisite and exclusive appear out to be most appropriate if one starts looking for the terms to describe pashmina shawls. A pashmina is a type of goat endemic to Kashmir (India). Its fleece has been used for hundreds of years to make high-quality shawls that also bear the same name. A Pashmina shawl can cost anything from few thousand to few lakhs of Rupees. They are well known for softness and warmth across the world.
A fashion craze for pashminas in the mid-1990's resulted in a large number of fakes being created. Pashm, from the Persian word for "wool", refers to the underfur of certain Tibetan animals, particularly goats, commonly used for the making of shawls. |