Paisley

Clyde-side textile town

Paisley is a town in western Scotland, historically a center of textile manufacturing.

The town gave its name to the ornate teardrop pattern produced there in the 19th century. (Lowercase paisley is the fabric pattern.)

scottish-town

Scotland

Northern British nation

heritage · manufacturing · Victorian · mass-production · textile · mill · abbey · town · burgh

textile-history

weaving

Interlacing strands into fabric

export · trade · pattern

Categories
Opposites
fabric pattern style

Paisleysolid

Firm matter state

plain · unpatterned · minimalist · geometric · stripes

NORTHERN IRISH POLITICS (Ian Paisley)

PaisleySinn Féin

Irish republican political party

nationalism · Catholic · IRA

scottish geography

PaisleyEdinburgh

Scotland's seat of government

Inverness · Highlands · Aberdeen · St Andrews

Phrases
Family

paisleys

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G