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Paisley or paisley pattern is an ornamental textile design using the boteh (Persian: بته) or buta, a teardrop-shaped motif with a curved upper end. Of Iranian origin, paisley designs became popular in the West in the 18th and 19th centuries, following imports of post- Mughal Empire versions of the design from India, especially in the form of ...
Paisley is both an English and Scottish surname and a given name derived from the surname. [1] The name is rising in popularity in English speaking countries such as the United States, where it has ranked among the top 1,000 names for newborn girls since 2006 and has ranked among the top 50 names for girls in recent years.
Though of Persian origin, it is very common and called buta in India, Azerbaijan, Turkey and other countries of the Near East. [1] Via Kashmir shawls it spread to Europe at least in the 19th century, where patterns using it are known since 1960s as paisleys, as Paisley, Renfrewshire in Scotland was a major centre imitating them.
Paisley may refer to: Paisley (design) , an ornamental Persian pattern or motif commonly identified with the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire, in west Scotland People
Square Paisley shawl of ca 1830 1860s ambrotype of an unnamed British veteran and his wife; the woman is wrapped in a Paisley shawl. Paisley shawls were a fashionable item of women's clothing in Europe during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Many were made of intricately woven and delicate wool, as well as examples being printed ...
Thomas Coats Memorial Baptist Church, Paisley, Scotland, ca. 1890–1900.. Formerly and variously known as Paislay, [3] Passelet, Passeleth, and Passelay [4] the burgh's name is of uncertain origin; some sources suggest a derivation either from the Brittonic word pasgill, "pasture", or from the Cumbric basaleg, "basilica", (i.e. major church), derived from the Greek βασιλική basilika.
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It is evident that the name is of territorial origin, derived from the lands of Cochrane near Paisley. [5] [6] [7] The origin of the name itself is believed to be derived from two Gaelic words which jointly mean The Roar of the Battle or Battle Cry.