Baker, Lindsay. "Paisley: The story of a classic bohemian print". www.bbc.com. Archived from the original on 3 December 2019 . Retrieved 5 December 2019. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the British East India Company introduced Kashmir shawls from India to England and Scotland where they were extremely fashionable and soon duplicated. [11] The first place in the western world to imitate the design was the town of Paisley in Scotland, Europe's top producer of textiles at this time. [12] Before being produced in Paisley, thus gaining its name in western culture, the paisley design was originally referred to by westerners simply as just pine and cone design. [13] Technological innovation in textile manufacturing around this time made it so that western imitations of Kashmir shawls became competitive with Indian made shawls from Kashmir. [14]

Paisley: The story of a classic bohemian print". Archived from the original on 27 May 2018 . Retrieved 31 May 2018. The pattern is still commonly seen in Britain and other English-speaking countries on men's ties, waistcoats, and scarfs, and remains popular in other items of clothing and textiles in Iran and South and Central Asian countries. Famous for their little elephant logo, which was typically printed next to an inscription saying: “fast color, 100% cotton,” the pictured elephant has gone through a few variations. INDULEKHA» GREEN | colours: MANGO MANIA by Laurie Baker» 1". Archived from the original on 2 October 2008 . Retrieved 9 January 2016.The Best Guide | Узор Paisley". Archived from the original on 5 January 2017 . Retrieved 5 January 2017. A seminal happening in the popularization of the bandana came during the American Revolution. Martha Washington, the wife of Continental Army general George Washington, had a souvenir bandana made featuring the likeness of the Commander-in-Chief. In the 1800s, European production of paisley increased, particularly in the Scottish town from which the pattern takes its modern name. Soldiers returning from the colonies brought home cashmere wool shawls from India, and the East India Company imported more. The design was copied from the costly silk and wool Kashmir shawls and adapted first for use on handlooms, and, after 1820, [19] on Jacquard looms. The rich symbolism and rebellious aura that surround paisley have kept it alive, it seems. But perhaps the real secret to the print’s immortality is how it combines conformity with unruliness, how it blends its rich historicism with a powerful adaptability, and how it is open to endless and unexpected re-invigoration and re-interpretation. Veronica Etro is keen to break new ground with the pattern, she says. “To develop further its boundaries without really breaking with the past – but looking to the future.” Classics scholar, forward thinker and snappy dresser Oscar Wilde would no doubt have approved. Fender Paisley Telecaster and Telecaster Bass". 14 June 2011. Archived from the original on 27 October 2019 . Retrieved 10 June 2018.

The modern French words for paisley are boteh, cachemire (" cashmere"; not capitalized, which would mean " Kashmir, the region") and palme (" palm", which – along with the pine and the cypress – is one of the traditional botanical motifs thought to have influenced the shape of the paisley element as it is now known). [6] [29] [ failed verification] Dani, Ahmad Hasan; Masson, Vadim Mikhaĭlovich (1999). History of Civilizations of Central Asia. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. ISBN 978-81-208-1407-3. Archived from the original on 10 September 2020 . Retrieved 24 December 2019.The Prohibition Years, 1686–1759", Le Musée de l'Impression sur Etoffes[ The Museum of Printed Textiles], archived from the original on 21 February 2008 , retrieved 3 February 2008 .

In Asia the paisley shawls were primarily worn by males often in formal or ceremonial contexts, but in Europe the shawls were primarily worn by women instead of men. While still holding an accurate resemblance to its original influence, the paisley design would begin to change once it began to be produced in western culture, with different towns in the United Kingdom applying their own spin to the design. [16] The peak period of paisley as a fashionable design ended in the 1870s, [17] perhaps as so many cheap versions were on the market.Local manufacturers in Marseille began to mass-produce the patterns via early textile printing processes in 1640. England, circa 1670, and Holland, in 1678, soon followed. This in turn provided Europe's weavers with more competition than they could bear, and the production and import of printed paisley was forbidden in France by royal decree from 1686 to 1759. However, enforcement near the end of that period was lax, and France had its own printed textile manufacturing industry in place as early at 1746 in some locales. Paisley was not the only design produced by French textile printers; the demand for paisley which created the industry there also made possible production of native patterns such as toile de Jouy. [18] a b Ringer, Monica (13 December 2011). Pious Citizens: Reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-5060-7. Archived from the original on 10 September 2020 . Retrieved 24 December 2019. Dusenbury, Mary M. and Bier, Carol, Flowers, Dragons & Pine Trees: Asian Textiles in the Spencer Museum of Art, 2004, Hudson Hills, ISBN 1555952380, 9781555952389, p. 48