Editing Cashmere wool (section)

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[[File:Pashmina goats.jpg|thumb|[[Pashmina goat]]s, [[Ladakh]], [[India]]]]
Historically, in the Western scientific community, fine-haired Cashmere goats have been called [[Capra hircus]], as if they were a subspecies of the domestic goat ''Capra hircus''. However, they are now more commonly considered part of the domestic goat subspecies ''[[Capra aegagrus hircus]]'' or the alternate version ''Hircus Blythi Goat''. Cashmere goats produce a double [[Wool|fleece]] that consists of a fine, soft undercoat or underdown of hair mingled with a straighter and much coarser outer coating of hair called [[guard hair]]. This undercoat is grown in the winter as a way to keep the goat warm in colder months. For the fine underdown to be sold and processed further, it must be de-haired. De-hairing is a mechanical process that separates the coarse hairs from the fine hair. After de-hairing, the resulting cashmere is ready to be dyed and converted into textile yarn, fabrics and garments.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} De-hairing is made slightly easier by removing the undercoat by hand, rather than shaving the entire coat. This process takes much longer to remove the cashmere, but produces a much finer, higher quality fiber.