paisley shawl

  • 11Paisley —    PAISLEY, a burgh, market town, and ancient parish, in the Upper ward of the county of Renfrew, of which it is the principal place, and the seat of a wide manufacturing district, 7½ miles (W. by S.) from Glasgow, and 50 (W. by S.) from… …

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  • 12Paisley (design) — Paisley wallpaper Paisley or Paisley pattern is a droplet shaped vegetable motif of Indian, Pakistani and Persian origin. The pattern is sometimes called Persian pickles by American traditionalists, especially quiltmakers,[1] or Welsh pears in… …

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  • 13paisley — [pāz′lē] adj. [after PAISLEY, where wool shawls in this pattern were orig. made ( c. 1800)] [also P ] 1. designating, of, or having an intricate, multicolored pattern typically of abstract curving figures resembling fat commas, used esp. for… …

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  • 14Shawl — (schahl), Gewebe aus der feinsten Wolle der Kaschemirziege, welche in einer Lösung von Potasche, dann in reinem Wasser gewaschen, hierauf gebleicht, gekrämpelt auf einer einfachen Spindel weich gesponnen, dann gewoben wird; in Kaschemir wird aber …

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  • 15Shawl — A shawl (Persian شال, Shāl, from Sanskrit: साडी śāṭī [ [http://www.bartleby.com/61/39/S0323900.html Shawl in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000] ] ) is a simple item of clothing, loosely worn over the… …

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  • 16shawl pattern — noun : a pattern copied from a cashmere shawl and usually made with bright colored leaf or petal motifs compare cashmere 2a * * * shawl pattern noun The pine cone pattern used on Kashmir shawls and imitated on Paisley shawls in the 19c • • • Main …

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  • 17kashmir shawl — ▪ textile also spelled  Cashmere,    type of woolen shawl woven in Kashmir. According to tradition, the founder of the industry was Zayn ul ʿĀbidīn, a 15th century ruler of Kashmir who introduced weavers from Turkistan. Although woolen shawls… …

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  • 18Castlehead, Paisley — Castlehead is a district of Paisley in Scotland. It is a heavily wooded area of Victorian villas where many of Paisley’s most influential industrialists and professionals made their homes as a nineteenth century industrial boom town became… …

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  • 191795-1820 in fashion — Fashion in the period 1795 1820 in European and European influenced countries saw the final triumph of undress or informal styles over the brocades, lace, periwigs, and powder of the earlier eighteenth century. In the aftermath of the French… …

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  • 20National Museum of Costume — Shambellie House Museum of Costume The National Museum of Costume is located at Shambellie House, in New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland and it forms part of the National Museums of Scotland. The museum allows a look at fashion and the… …

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