Inside the Illegal Trade of $20,000 Shawls Made From an Endangered Animal

Mushtaq Beigh remembers the first time his hands touched the feathery light yarn of shahtoosh. It was decades ago, during winter, when the cloud-like wool would land in his house in Srinagar, located in what is now the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Inside their home, Beigh’s…