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 ...

He said: “Like anything Paisley turned its hand to, we became the best in the country from line thread production in the 1720s to silk thread and then cotton; textile production really put ...

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.