Cashmere wool
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Cashmere wool, usually simply known as cashmere, is a fiber obtained from cashmere goats, pashmina goats, and some other breeds of goat. It has been used to make yarn, textiles and clothing for hundre
Cashmere scarves
Pashmina goats, Ladakh, India
An 1867 William Simpson painting depicting men manufacturing shawls using pashm wool
Cashmere factory in Ulaanbaatar
Kashmir
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Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal
Cashmere wool
…textiles and clothing for hundreds of years. Cashmere is closely associated with the Kashmir shawl, the word "cashmere" deriving from an anglicization of Kashmir, when the Kashmir shawl reached Europe in the 19th century. Both the soft undercoat and the guard hairs may be used; the softer hair is reserved for…
A white border painted on a suspended bridge delineates Azad Kashmir from Jammu and Kashmir
K2, the second-highest mountain in the world
Horses grazing at a Himalayan meadow below the Gangabal Lake in Jammu and Kashmir
Himalayan bulbul eating berries near Mehmood Gali, Azad Jammu and Kashmir