I can't, so far at least find any words related to shawl, but in hunting down some ideas I put a few brief facts together that may be of interest, or may just be common knowledge, we'll see.
The warmest and most luxurious shawls come from the ‘undercoat’ of the cashmere or shawl goat, capra hircus. Originally cashmere shawls were woven in Kashmir but the fibre came, then as now, from goats in Tibet and Central Asia. In Nepal the shawls woven from cashmere hair are referred to as Pashmina shawls, "Pashm" being the Persian word for 'wool'. The pure-bred goat will provide 3 to 8 ounces per year of the soft white, grey or buff-coloured down, which is found under the long, coarse outer hair. This down is combed out during the spring. Pashmina fibre is less than 15 microns in thickness (whereas human hair is 75 microns thick).
