Excerpted from Patternalia: An Unconventional History of Polka Dots, Stripes, Plaid, Camouflage, & Other Graphic Patterns by Jude Stewart. Out now from Bloomsbury. What form of life is paisley ...

It’s funny how widely paisley associations skew these days. One minute, the swirly, twirly, multicolored, originally Kashmiri pattern has you thinking about its establishment lineage (Hermès ...

Paisley-print chiffon in Ronit Zilkha's 2004 collection, Paisley: a designer heritage I bet Leslie Phillips has got one. I have an awful feeling that, in the 1970s, one of my male relatives might ...

But just because the Paisley pattern was not first created in the Renfrewshire town, that’s no reason for the Buddies to start questioning their identity. Stephen went on to say that, when ...

“Paisley has been a popular motif in fashion for centuries,” Jeremy Langmead, brand-and-content director of luxury menswear e-tailer Mr Porter, tells BBC Culture.“And especially in the West ...

More than seven billion unique Paisley patterns are to be created - one for every person on earth - to support the town's bid for UK City of Culture.

This textile design by George Haité (c 1850) is based on a twisted teardrop shape motif typical of a Paisley pattern. This shape, called a buta, dates back to ancient Persia but became popular in ...

A collection of rare textiles, many not seen by the public for decades, have been revealed at the Paisley Museum to mark the launch of the PaisleyMake Festival of Creativity and Design.