Pashmina is the best cashmere wool in the world. It only comes from Kashmir and Tibet. It comes from Capra Hircus, the same goat cashmere comes from. Only this one lives way up in the Himalayas. At heights of 12,000 to 14,000 feet or more where there is little vegetation and extremely cold winters.
The hardy little goats which live up there |  | have little extra protein and nutrition to grow thick coats of hair. Nature blessed them with a very thin, short inner coat of hair which is the best natural insulation in the world. This inner coat of hair is Pashmina. In fact the word "pashm" means inside. Pashmina is only 12-14 microns thick. A human hair is 75 microns thick. |
