Study Of Paisley Pattern's Changes And Applications

Paisley pattern was named after Paisley City, a small city in the southwest of Scotland in Britain. In the 19th century, every country in Europe in order to capture the market, started to build workshops that imitated Kashmiri shawls. The imitational shawls in Paisley city was the most famous at that time and paisley pattern took its name from the city. Hereafter, "paisley"was used to all Kashmiri shawls no matter where they were produced and the pattern in the shawls was thus called paisley pattern.It can be proved from this that the pattern did not originate from Paisley city in Europe. It can be traced to Kashmiri in Asia. It was learned from the research of tracing the pattern of Kashmiri shawls that the origination of Paisley pattern was much further and more complicate than we could imagine. By comparison, analysis and research from a series of related data, it can be finally confirmed that the origination of the earliest paisley pattern can be traced to the ancient West-Asia and Mid-Asia.Paisley pattern absorbs typical artistic style and decorative features in every period. After hundreds of years of changes and developments, it has been recognized as one of the classic decorative patterns and widely used in modern design.