The cashmere is a small domesticated goat with large ears and small horns kept for its wool, milk and meat in mountainous areas of China, Iran and Kashmir, and also extensively farmed in the USA and other developed countries primarily for its wool. The Cashmere goat is remarkable for its fine downy fleece, said to be found in perfection only in Tibet in the neighbourhood of Lhassa, but also found in other parts of this region, including Ladakh, now a province of Cashmere. The colder the region where the goat pastures, the heavier is its fleece. A full-grown goat yields not more than eight ounces, the fine curled wool being close to the skin. A large shawl of the finest quality requires 5 lbs of the wool; one of the inferior quality from 3 to 4 lbs. Research Cashmere More information about Cashmere
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