Friday, September 16, 2011

Have You Bought a Real Pashmina or a Fake Pashmina?

By Agus Rahman


Viscose Pashmina, Acrylic Pashmina, Silk Pashmina, Wool Pashmina..., just to make a cheap product look royal and cool. The Pashmina encounter of these vendors is as little as the experience of customers who buy these products and then sport them as Pashmina. What is Pashmina? Its a heritage of Himalayas that does not need a material name in front of it to be cool. It's a royalty in itself

Produced with the finest cashmere nature provides us, woven by expert craftsmen/women on handlooms and dyed carefully in cold flowing river, every Pashmina is a work of art and passion.,.

Though its too not genuine that actual Pashmina has to be very expensive always. It all depends on the quality of Cashmere yarn used to make the fabric

. Cashmere thread ranges from 12 to 18 microns thickness depending on the hair used to make it. If hair arrives from the neck and belly of baby goats it's just 12-14 microns thick, it is most softest and thinnest so makes for a costilest item - $300 and above. But hair that arrives from an adult goat's underbelly is concerning 14-18 microns thick and Pashmina produced by this hair are obtainable for a decent price (underneath $100).

It as well depends on brand, a huge shop will charge much higher even for an adult goat hair Pashmina over a small shop with less overheads. An embroidered or Jacquard weave will cost more due to work involved in making it.

How to test a genuine Pashmina? - Actual Cashmere Pashmina is very soft and resists wrinkles. The single ply Pashmina is accordingly soft and thin it can easily pass through a wedding ring and still show no wrinkles or signs of distress. Most of the actual Pashmina dealers will notify the customers how to gaze for the actual Cashmere Pashmina.

The Cashmere thread in the Pashmina may be tested by burning few strands of it. While burning, Cashmere strands give a sulphuric smell and reduce into very small balls which when cold will crumble easily into a powder. This is due to the fact that Cashmere is hair and is primarily calcium. On the contrary, viscose burns like plastic thread, very fast and without leaving any residue or smell. A true Pashmina lover will quickly find out if a Pashmina is actual or not.

Pashminas are hand made on looms accordingly their weave is not very close, infact on the edge of the fabric, one may apart the threads since they are woven gently. Cashmere thread is reasonably dull even after dyeing accordingly pure Cashmere does not shine. It's weave is also fairly open since it is woven on a handloom.

its regular to blend one other fine natural thread like silk with cashmere and create a Cashmere Silk Pashmina that provides warmth of Cashmere and the luster of silk. Such Pashminas are very regular now days.

The more the silk, the cheaper a Pashmina gets. Often 70% Cashmere and 30% Silk is most traditional blend, however to make a nice shiny scarf, a 50/50 combination is too quite famous. If just one Ply of Cashmere (either mixed with silk or pure cashmere) is used to make a fabric it results in a fine fabric that passes through a ring and is called a Ring Pashmina (sometimes also known as river Pashmina).




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