Just the thing to keep out the Winter chill! This simple scarf is lightweight and warm. It slips easily into purse or pocket. Made of premium Bhaju grade pashmina and fine silk 210, which is noticeably softer than most. **Pashmina is Persian for "wool". It is the softest fiber found in nature and is culled from the neck and underbelly of the rare species of the capra hircus mountain goat. Pashmina is valued and cherished for the simple reasons that it so high quality and so little of it is produced. A goat is capable of producing only about three ounces of pashmina wool per year. For a typical pashmina sweater, it takes about four years for one goat to produce enough wool! ** The cashmere goat cannot be reared just anywhere; they live at altitudes between 14,000-15,000 feet, weathering some of the harshest climates in the Himalayas. Each spring, the goats silky insulating underbelly down, profusely mixed with an upper layer of thick and coarse dead fibers, is plucked by hand. Extracting the pure cashmere from the coarse outer coat is a delicate and complicated task. Unless the fibers are cleaned up to 97% purity before spinning, the unique texture of the pashmina does not emerge. **Pashmina is often mistakenly referred to as cashmere because both the fibers are obtained from the same goat. The two are not the same. Pashmina is finer, lighter and far more luxurious than cashmere.
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