There are lots of imitations, but real Pashmina scarves and shawls are made from the soft wool of goats raised in a remote region of India:
"Ladakh is the region, it in Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh is a cool desert region where this Pashmina goat is reared at a very high altitude, its found only in Ladakh."
And Ladakh is the answer to our Geo Quiz.
As the BBC's Altaf Hussein explains, an unusually severe Winter is threatening the goats that make all those shawls and scarfs possible.
Listen to the interview
