December’s Paisley affirmation post celebrating paisley the pattern/design/motif.

This month an interesting survey of paisley images from Shutterstock with commentary.

As always, I ask everyone to keep in mind that, like most human endeavours, the story of paisley is more complex than one might think. Competing claims of origin, ‘ownership’, colonialism, adaptation, integration and reinterpretation all seem to be there.

https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/paisley-pattern-trends-history

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PAISLEY - whether you call it a pattern, design or motif, it’s intrigued me since before I could read.

It’s been a very long time though since my regular paisley affirmation posts dropped off. It wasn’t due to lack of intention but rather, the inability of search engines to pull up new content.

For whatever reason, I have had some fresh success in finding some things to share. I genuinely hope these were written by actual reflecting human beings.

Just keep in mind, like most human endeavours, the story of paisley is more complex than one might think. Competing claims of origin, ‘ownership’, colonialism, adaptation, integration and reinterpretation all seem to be there. I’ve shared a V&A deconstruction previously, but I will just run through some of the various pieces in these posts.

First up, a textile history piece from Pattern Observer:

https://patternobserver.com/2014/05/20/paisleys/

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