Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
In a message dated 9/2/2006 9:08:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
When did Paisley begin to be seen in "western European" textiles?
Some time in the early 1800s, when European weavers began making imitation
cashmere shawls--among the first to do so were in Paisley, Scotland,
hence the
name. One of the factoids I enjoy telling people when I give talks on early
19th century costume.
Really. I had it in my mind that it came from India/Persia (or at
least *somewhere* in that neck of the woods) and that it was the
pattern produced by "block printing the side of the hand .....
Interesting tidbit nonetheless. Wonder where I got my erroneous info from?
susan
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Susan Farmer
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University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
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