The fascinating story of Paisley’s world-renowned shawls will be told in the town’s transformed museum thanks to a £60,000 grant. Museum Galleries Scotland (MSG) has awarded the money to ...

and The Paisley Shawl Collection cared for by Renfrewshire Arts and Museums Service is a Recognised Collection of National Significance to Scotland. The exotically patterned, delicate woollen ...

The shawls were soon imitated throughout Europe, notably in Wales and the town of Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland. From that point onwards the English term for the motif was ‘paisley ...

Fifty years ago the grey little city of Paisley, seven miles outside of Glasgow, was world famed because beauties who could not afford real Cashmere shawls draped their drooping shoulders with ...

In February 1949 the decline of Paisley’s once-formidable shawl industry was traced to the printed imitation. Mr W. Philip Mayes, director of the town’s Art Galleries and Museum, made the ...

The town of Paisley, Scotland, eclipsed Norwich and Edinburgh in shawl production in the early 19 th century, thanks to pattern piracy, fast-evolving labor structures, and early adoption of the ...

"It's quite a story," says Valerie Reilly, who has written several books on the subject and curates the shawl collection - with more than 1,000, the world's largest - at the museum in Paisley ...

So much so, in fact, that she owned several paisley wool shawls and wore them often — out of a pure fondness for them, but also as a public gesture to boost Scotland’s faltering economy.

The fascinating story of Paisley’s world-renowned shawls will be told in the town’s transformed museum thanks to a £60,000 grant. Museum Galleries Scotland (MSG) has awarded the money to ...

and The Paisley Shawl Collection cared for by Renfrewshire Arts and Museums Service is a Recognised Collection of National Significance to Scotland. The exotically patterned, delicate woollen ...