Pashmina                                                                  

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Context: The Srinagar-born designer is creating pashmina wall hangings.

About Pashmina:

• It refers to a fine variant of spun cashmere, the animal-hair fibre forming the downy undercoat of the Changthangi goat.
• Generic cashmere ranges from 12 to 21 microns in diameter, whereas pashmina refers only to those fibres that range from 12 to 16 microns.
• Wool fibres discovered from corroded copper artifacts from Harappa dating back to the Indus valley civilization are extremely fine and resemble Pashmina and Shatoosh.
• China accounts for 70% of the world's cashmere production, Mongolia 20%, and the remaining 10% of production is in Afghanistan, Australia, India, Iran, Nepal, Pakistan, the United States.
• Kashmiri Pashmina has got the GI tag.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/walls-get-a-soft-touch-with-pashmina/article65068778.ece