… One cold and windy day, during the far XVth Century, the Kashmir sultan Zain-Ul-Abidin, called Akbar the Great as he was a promoter of arts and a beauty lover, invited ti his court a weaver coming from Turkenstan and asked him to produce precious pashmina textile for himself and his family.
Since then all the Oriental sultans, the powerful and rich people longed for those gorgeous garments, especially shawls and blankets, made of the magic cashmere pashmina, the lightest and warmest natural fiber that could make them beautiful while wrapped up.
It comes from the underbelly soft hair of certain small goats (scientifically called Hircus Bottus Laniger) that live on the 5000 mt. high mountains in Tibet and Mongolia were cold is pungent and unbearable.
These goats survive thanks to their fleece, this natural gift that men discovered centuries ago by picking some soft tufts of hair up from the bushes where the goats used to rest and eat.
In the past centuries this rare fleece was called Pashmir. Nowadays it is called Pashmere and the ancient pleasure springs into modernity… | In the year 2000, the Galassia company’s creative team searched that luxurious material directly where it was produced and brought it to Italy where the delicate operations of selecting, washing, dyeing and spinning are done with particular experienced skill and care, then we transformed it into a very very thin yarn (count 2/72000!) and yet so resistant and warm as no others.
So the brand Pashmere was born.
Then, with our ancient 33 gauge looms, carefully and patiently restored by our specialized technicians expressly with the purpose of knitting cashmere pashmina, we started the delicate and difficult creation of our “fully fashioned” knitwear that should rather be called CARESSES INSTEAD OF SWEATERS
Many moons have passed since that day when Akbar the great called the wool weaver to his court…but for us, producers of cashmere, the same care for and love of beauty have remained unchanged and here we are ready to present the fascination of cashmere to you in a truly unique atmosphere in which the tenacity of our successful firm weaves the guiding thread. |
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