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Pashmina, or cashmere, is a remarkably practical use of an animal by-product that would otherwise be unused. Each year, the mountain goats known as changra in the Nepali language, shed their fur in preparation for the heat of the summer months. Out on the remote locations where the goat farmers make their home, the goats are carefully brushed during this moulting season, and before the precious fur can be lost, it is collected and gathered for us...