Cashmere / Pashmina  Shawl: A garment capable of appearing the most feminine and graceful in the world."

Cashmere is also called Pashmina in India.

The cashmere shawl is of a very soft fabric made from the wool of the Cashmere goat.  The pashmina shawl is of the highest quality made from the pashmina goat from Kashmir, India. Its fleece has been used for thousands of years to make the highest quality of shawls called pashminas.
A brief description of the manufacture of Cashmere  shawls shows why they never can be cheap. The wool of the Thibet goat is the finest in the world, and for the best shawls only the finest even of this wool is used. The animals are shorn once a year, and a full-grown goat only produces about eight ounces of wool of this first quality. There is every reason to suppose that the climate has very much to do with the perfection of the animal, for attempts to naturalize it elsewhere have all more or less failed.