More than seven billion unique Paisley patterns are to be created - one for every person on earth - to support the town's bid for UK City of Culture.

“Paisley has been a popular motif in fashion for centuries,” Jeremy Langmead, brand-and-content director of luxury menswear e-tailer Mr Porter, tells BBC Culture.“And especially in the West ...

Excerpted from Patternalia: An Unconventional History of Polka Dots, Stripes, Plaid, Camouflage, & Other Graphic Patterns by Jude Stewart. Out now from Bloomsbury. What form of life is paisley ...

Paisley will forever be synonymous with tadpoles. Not real tadpoles, of course, but the shapes who synchronise their swimming to form the Paisley Pattern. This unmistakable textile design is found ...

The famous Paisley pattern From roughly 1800 to 1850, Paisley’s weavers became the foremost producers of the delicate woollen shawls whose exotic patterns originated in Kashmir.