Ohlwini lokuthenga cishe lwabo bonke abavakashi bakwamanye amazwe abavakashela i- India kukhona ama-pashminas, ingubo ebuye ibe yisikhumbuzo esihle kakhulu noma isipho. Kodwa-ke, kufanele uqaphele: kunama-pashminas amaningi kakhulu amanga athengiswa ezweni njengoba ekhona ku-inthanethi.
Ungawubona kanjani umehluko phakathi kwamashali wamanga nawangempela e-pashmina? Into yokuqala ukwazi ukuthi iyini i- pashmina, igama elisuselwa egameni lasePheresiya loboya. Vuliwe isifunda saseKashmir Ama-pashminas woboya abelukiwe iminyaka engaphezu kwamakhulu amane. Ngaphambi kwalokhu, le ndwangu enhle yayitholakala kuphela kwabacebile nezikhulu zaseNdiya. USpolo babekwazi ukugqoka le ngubo yesithambile imbuzi yoboya bohlobo lwe-changra, ehlala eziqongweni zeHimalaya ezingaphezulu kwamamitha ayi-1.600 ukusuka phezulu.
Uboya bePashmina benziwa kuphela ngempande yoboya obude bembuzi. Isilwane ngasinye sikhiqiza ngaphansi kwamagremu ayi-100 we-fiber yoboya ngonyaka. Lobo boya obuhle buhlanganiswe imicu kasilika ngezilinganiso ezehlukene, ezinquma ikhwalithi yendwangu, bese idayiwe ngemibala ehlukene.
Yize le datha inganele ukuthi ongeyena uchwepheshe azi ukuthi ngabe athenga i-pashmina eyiqiniso noma cha, i-pashmina yangempela ayinakuphikwa ngenxa yokuthamba nokukhanya kwayo. Izinto zomgunyathi zithatha uboya obucwengekile obumhlophe bezinye izimvu ngisho nezinwele zonogwaja.
Amashawuli e-pashmina athandwa kakhulu abizwa nge-Shahtoosh, zilunge kakhulu ukuthi zingadlula ngaphakathi kwendandatho. Kulezi zinhlobonhlobo, uboya be-chagra buthathelwa indawo yibo chiru, inyamazane yaseTibet ehlala ezindaweni ezibandayo kakhulu. Ngeshwa, ukuthengiswa kwe-shastoosh okwamanje akuvunyelwe eNdiya, yize sicela kancane kunoma imuphi umakethe osenyakatho yezwe singathola ama-shawls enziwe ngalolu hlobo loboya obucolekile. Kumele uqiniseke ukuthi abasibambi emasikweni.