Pashmina is a fine type of cashmere wool, Pashmina fibres are finer and thinner (11-15 microns). The exorbitant price of a Pashmina shawl is due to the quantum of expert craftsmanship that goes into creating each shawl and the rarity of the Pashmina wool - the wool is used in an authentic Kashmiri Pashmina comes from the Changthangi breed of the capra hircus goat and this breed constitutes less than 0.1% of global Cashmere production.The world famous Pashmina has an unrivalled status as a luxury fiber due to its extreme fineness, softness, its scarcity in relation to other fibers & its mystique.