Cashmere, one of the finest natural fibres known to man, inspires pictures of soft, fragile luxury combining the clear ambiguity of heat and lightness.
Originating in Kashmir, high in the mountains of the Himalayas, cashmere is known by its authentic name, pashmina. The word pashmina is much misused, today being adopted to describe scarfs and scarves of diverse mixes of wool, silk, cashmere, and even polyester.
But real pashmina, from the word pashm, means king's fabric, the name for only the
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