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In common vocabulary today, pashmina may refer either to the material or to the variant of the Kashmir shawl that is made from it. The Iranians who came to Kashmir through the Ladakh Silk Road have given the fabric its name “pashmina”. Pash means wool in Persian. The Persian word comes from ‘ Pashmineh' which means ‘made from pashm.’ The wool comes from a Special breed of gods found in the high altitude region of Nepal and India.  the name of the high region board is pashmina goat or Changthang goat From this wool fiber the famous pashmina shawl is made. this wool is among the softest wool across the globe from the Himalayas region and the Tibetan plateau. mythological mansion the written proof shows that pashmina shawls were also used during the period of Mahabharata. The Shoal is the favorite of emperors and noble rulers. The art of making pashmina is believed to be at least as old as 5000 years BC. History the wool fibers samples discovered fr...

Kinnaur in Himachal Pradesh located on the Indo – Tibetan border still has a culture of its own. The finest but most time-consuming weaves in wool which is in the purest form.  The art and artists were cut off from the rest of the world, because for numerous reasons. Untouched regions, topography, climate, and most importantly their lack of trust in modern culture. Their techniques were stile and commercialized but still, they refuses to sell their ancestry.  There is no change in the usage of these shawls. Though a few households in the administrative headquarters of Kinnaur, reckong-peo, have little shops where they sell them locally but vastly they still weave them for their own.  History   The “wool road”, merely a donkey trail, was the traditional main trade route in the region, and was so important that it was later widened to  motorable width to improve trade in the region and came to be known as the Hindus tan-Tibet road”. Two groups of artis...