About Pashmina.. What is pashmina? Is it a fibre, a type of cloth or style of scarf? This is a surprisingly tricky question and we hope to answer it here. A pile of water pashminas--> (made from 80% cashmere / 20% Silk)

Pashmina used to be the term for the very finest cashmere, that taken from the inner fur from the neck of the goat. 'Pashm' comes from a sanskrit word meaning inner coat (with regards to an animals fur).

Now, it seems, that the word pashmina is taken to mean a large scarf or shawl which can be made of anything from alpaca to viscose.

The Cashmere & Camel Hair Institute say that it is not acceptable to label items x% pashmina , but that they must be labelled x% cashmere.

So how to do we distinguish between different grades of cashmere?

The finest cashmere is under 15 microns. Many people would call this pashmina. We have had our pashminas tested and the fibre width is about 14.5microns. Standard, good quality cashmere is about 18 microns.

The conclusion is our pashminas are high grade genuine pashminas made from the finest Cashmere and high quality silk.

If you need any reassurance about the quality of our products, please read the customer comments. We receive 2 or 3 compliments everyday from satisfied customers. see them HERE.

We have many different styles in stock ready for delivery in 1-3 days and many more in our UK warehouse available for delivery in about 5 days. We also have many different styles which you can have especially made to order. It only takes 3 weeks.

We sell two types of classic pashminas - 70/30 and 100%. Both are 2 ply. The 70/30 type is made from 70% Cashmere and 30% Silk. The Cashmere is the finest quality available (so we call it pashmina cashmere), and the silk is 210 quality.

The 100% type is made from 100% Pure Cashmere of the finest quality, so we call is pashmina cashmere.

Click HERE to view our range where you can find out more information about the different types.