“Pashmina-Pashm”
PASHM means “wool” in Persian, but is in Sanskrit pashm referred to the raw unspun wool of goats. In common parlance today, pashmina may refer either to the material or to the variant of the Pashmina Shawl (Cashmere Shawl) that is made from it. Both cashmere and pashmina come from the same goat.
Goats used for pashmina shed their winter coat every spring. One goat sheds approximately 80–170 grams (3–6 oz) of the fiber. In the spring the goats naturally shed their undercoat which re-grows in winter. This undercoat is collected by combing the goat, not by shearing, as in other fine wools. A traditional producer of pashmina wool in the Nepal region of the Himalayas are a people known as the Chyangra