31/05/2019
Cashmere wool, also called kashmir, is an extremely fine type of fiber that is gathered from Kashmir goats.
In the thirteenth century in some caves in Mongolia, Marco Polo discovered representations of wild goats, domesticated by man. It is therefore likely that some shepherds raised these goats, capable of providing a particularly warm wool, a long time ago. A blessing for those regions that have very harsh winters.
The word “Cashmere” comes from Kashmir, a historic region of harsh and mountainous northern India. Actually material from Tibet is produced in Kashmir as cashmere. It is well known that more than 50,000 craftsmen wove cashmere products in 16th century in India.
Only in the nineteenth century did Europeans discover, to their amazement, the precious wool that would later be known as kashmir.