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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 18th century it was popular for women’s shawls.) “All of my bears have something to do with paisley,” says Slayter. “My great-grandfather was born and lived in Paisley, Scotland.

The man who scored Scotland's most-lauded goal ... The design became known as the Paisley pattern. The shawl went out of fashion in the 1870s, but the pattern that had decorated them is still ...

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 ...

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 ...