So This Is Christmas

Merry Christmas is such an infectious feeling I like to feel that way all year around.

So if you are visiting just before Christmas, just after Christmas or even here on Christmas day I am sure you will find something of interest for you and in the spirit of Christmas.

It may be said that Christmas is no longer a celebration but this must be spoken by people that have never had trouble closing their eyes on Christmas Eve in an expectation of what maybe left for them on the carpet under the tree.

I continue to look forward to the surprise on my Grandchild's faces to this day at Christmas events.

Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas

Friday, September 16, 2011

Have You Bought a Genuine Pashmina or a Fake Pashmina?

By Agus Rahman


Viscose Pashmina, Acrylic Pashmina, Silk Pashmina, Wool Pashmina..., only to make a cheap product look royal and cool. The Pashmina experience of these vendors is as little as the encounter of clients who buy these products and afterward 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 is 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 waterway, every Pashmina is a work of art and passion.,.

But its too not true that genuine 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 comes from the neck and belly of baby goats it is only 12-14 microns thick, it's most softest and thinnest for this reason makes for a costilest item - $300 and above. But hair that arrives from an adult goat's underbelly is related to 14-18 microns thick and Pashmina made by this hair are obtainable for a decent price (underneath $100).

It as well depends on brand, a massive 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 produced on looms therefore their weave is not very close, infact on the edge of the fabric, one can apart the threads since they are woven smoothly. Cashmere thread is very dull even after dyeing accordingly pure Cashmere does not shine. It's weave is too fairly open since it is woven on a handloom.

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

The more the silk, the cheaper a Pashmina gets. Usually 70% Cashmere and 30% Silk is most common blend, however to make a nice shiny scarf, a 50/50 combination is too quite famous. If only 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 too known as waterway Pashmina).




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