How to Identify a Pure Pashmina Shawl?

Are you interested in buying the best luxury shall? Don’t be a victim of fraudulent vendors, especially online. Pashmina shawls are very luxurious to provide a warm look in winter. There are varieties of designs you can pick from.

What is pashmina made up of?

Pashmina fabric is made up of the finest undercoat of the ‘Chyangra’ mountain goat. The hairs are not clipped like a sheep, they are combed from the neck area. The shawls are manufactured with ultimate intricacy. This fiber is not easy to find and it is the most precious fiber one can find.

There are a few steps involved in manufacturing Pashmina Shawls:

• Raw material collection: Pashmina is a fine type of Kashmiri wool obtained from four different breeds of cashmere goat found high on the mountains.
• Process: Raw material collected undergoes various types of the process such as Hand Spinning, weaving, Dyeing as well as printing. Being very delicate, Pashmina is very carefully handspun, weaved and dyed using delightful colors or block printing and at last, it is hand embroidered. We get the smooth, durable and strengthened product at the end.
• Washing and finishing: Shawls are not washed in harsh chemicals, they are washed in mild and gentle detergent solutions to give it a nice shine as well as texture.

There are various sellers available online as well as offline. Various fraudsters are dealing with duplicate shawls and are cheating the customers. Don’t be their victim. There are few things you should take into consideration as well as few steps to try before you buy a pure pashmina shawl so that you get the real value of the money:

• Burning Test: Pashmina shawls are made up of real hairs. In this test, you will have to take out just two to three strands of threads from the shawl if the shopkeeper permits you to do so, then keep them in a plate and burn them. If you feel the natural smell of burning hairs or the texture of the burnt strands will feel powdery then its an original one. If the strands burnt doesn’t smell like hairs and if it gives you the feeling of viscose material or the smell of plastic comes, then it's a duplicate one.

Most of the vendors use this method to identify the authenticity of the shawl.

• Examine its appearance: original pashmina doesn’t have any type of sheen. It comes with an elegant matte appearance. If you see a shawl with just a slight sheen then it's ok but if the amount of sheen is more or if it is a whole sheen shawl, then surely it is not the original one.
• The Weave check: You can also know about the original and duplicate one by checking the weave of the shawl. Pashmina wool is always spun by hand as it is very delicate. You cannot get the absolute weave similar to the machine. Hand made weave can be easily identified as it is always uneven. So this is also one of the useful and easy methods to identify the product.
• Check its dimensions: Dimensions are important in shawls. The higher the dimensions, the more the material it will consume and the price of the material is high. If you find that someone is selling a higher dimension shawl at a lower price, then, surely, you are being victimized.
• Weight: The weight of the shawl can be observed to know about its authenticity. Generally, a shawl can be less than 200 grams. Top-quality, as well as

original pashmina shawl, are generally low in weight.

• Check if something is glued: You will have to perform a glue test before buying a shawl. Pashmina shawls are very costly and the branded things, as well as costly things, don’t have anything that looks cheap. The same way pashmina shawl is also a luxury shawl it also has a tag that is hand-stitched to it or properly attached to it. If you find any shawl with just the stickers that can be easily removed from them, then surely it is the duplicate one
• Cost: The cost of women's pashmina shawls is high. If you find any seller selling the shawl for a cheaper price than the market, it gives a click that it might not be the original one as no one would sell that lower than the cost. So the original shawl is never cheaply available. Women's pashmina scarf is also in trend nowadays.

Conclusion:

It can be concluded that there are various ways to check the authenticity of the product. One should keep in mind all of the above points to avoid the chances of getting cheated.

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