shahtoosh

/ ˌʃɑːˈtuːʃ /

noun

1. a soft wool that comes from the protected Tibetan antelope

Example Sentences

His earliest memories of fabric were totally sensory, he said, recalling the downy feel of a jamawar shawl at home in Srinagar and the soft warmth of his mother's shahtoosh saris.

From BBC

It produced an illusion of comfort, like that of an old shahtoosh shawl, but it was arousing, too, stirring memories of places I had never been, sensations I had never known.

From New York Times

“I always take a very comfortable shawl, a shahtoosh. They weigh almost nothing and they’re as warm as a down comforter. It’s paper thin, it goes through a wedding ring.”

From New York Times

If you can pull the fine wool scarf through a ring, it is likely a shahtoosh, not a pashmina.

From Washington Post

Its wool came from a Central Asian species of goat, Capra hircus in Latin or shahtoosh in indigenous terms.

From Slate