#The principal aspects of the shawl are its distinctive Kashmiri weaving technique and fine wool.

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Kashmir shawls are traditionally made either of shahtoosh or pashmina. Today, shahtoosh shawls are no longer made because of a ban on the trade of products made from the Tibetan antelope. Scholars, vendors and journalists have sometimes mistakenly used the words cashmere and pashmina synonymously but… In reality, pashmina is a particularly fine form of cashmere, so all pashmina is cashmere, but not all cashmere is pashmina. Under Babur, the Mughal khil'at was a set of clothes, which could include a turban, long coat, gown, fitted jacket, sash, shawl, trousers, shirt, and scarf. One or all of these could be made of pashmina and embroidered in gold cloth. The principal aspects of the shawl are its distinctive Kashmiri weaving technique and fine wool.

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