Kashmiri shawl varieties include the Shahtoosh, popularly known as the'ring shawl'and the pashmina wool shawls, historically called " pashm ".
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Pashm is the Persian word for " wool, " or more specifically, " soft wool from under the throat of sheep or goats ."
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Thirteen years later, a British natural history magazine explained, " It is this pashm of the goat of these regions which affords the materials for the celebrated Kashmir shawls ."
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Famous shawls are the jamawar with the famous Persian for " wool " ) or " pashmina " ( Persian / Urdu word derived from Pashm ) for its use in the handmade shawls of Kashmir.
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In 1880, Mrs . A . G . F . Eliot James in " Indian Industries " wrote, " The pashm, or shawl-wool, is a downy substance, growing next to the skin and under the thick hair of those goats found in Thibet and in the elevated lands north of the Himalayas ."
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