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In the same century, in the 1400s, some of the earliest recorded Kashmir shawls were produced in India, records from the 1500s, during Emperor Akbar's reign over the Mughal people in this area indicate that shawl making was already fashionable in India prior to Mughal conquest which took place in the early 1400s. Different colors and pockets were a quick way to communicate in plain sight with a community that was still largely forced underground. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, paisley bandanas began to appear with political and military advertisements printed on them.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, the British East India Company introduced Kashmir shawls from India to England and Scotland where they were extremely fashionable and soon duplicated.

citation needed] The paisley bandana started to feature in Western movies and thus became a symbol of the American West.

Ethnic Dress in the United States: A Cultural Encyclopedia2016 010 Edited by Annette Lynch and Mitchell D. In the 1950s, this type of political promotion was becoming increasingly popular, as politicians started to print their campaign slogans on similar bandanas for their supporters, peaking with Dwight Eisenhower’s 1952 Win with Ike for President . In Chinese, it is known as the " ham hock pattern" ( Chinese: 火腿纹; pinyin: huǒtuǐwén) in Mainland China, or " Amoeba pattern" in Taiwan ( Chinese: 變形蟲; pinyin: biànxíngchóng).It was in the 19th Century that the paisley pattern first attracted a rebellious, progressive following. Today, the design remains common appearing on jewellery, suit ties, pocket books, cake decorations, tattoos, mouse pads for computers, scarves, and dresses. And the bandana market has continued to expand to this day, even if it hasn’t necessarily flourished. You might be surprised that the famous paisley pattern that most of us associate with printed bandanas doesn’t actually come from Paisley, Scotland, but rather the region of Kashmir (once part of the Persian empire). contest that the earliest representation of the patterns shape comes from the later Sassanid Dynasty.

It was a large and successful operation that would go on to exist for almost two hundred years, closing their last factory in 1961. This admittedly odd combination produced a highly valued color, one that wouldn’t fade with sunlight and washing—aka colorfast.With the industrial revolution taking place in Europe, paisley shawls were manufactured at an industrial rate, and while the shawls from India could be quite expensive at the time, factory manufactured shawls made it so that the fashion became commonplace among middle-class people, thus boosting the design's popularity even more.

From roughly 1800 to 1850, the weavers of the town of Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland, became the foremost producers of Paisley shawls. Prince paid tribute to the rock and roll history of paisley when he created the Paisley Park Records recording label and established Paisley Park Studios, both named after his 1985 song " Paisley Park". It had a certain mystery and eastern promise about it that suited the times,” says textile designer and artist Sarah Campbell, who during the 1960s and ’70s created some of Liberty’s best-known interpretations of the print with her design partner Susan Collier, including the swirling, intricate Splendide. In Asia the paisley shawls were primarily worn by males often in formal or ceremonial contexts, but in Europe the shawls were primarily worn by women instead of men.Implemented by the gay community, the handkerchief code became an easy way to identify not only other gay men but also tell sexual preferences and/or fetishes from potential partners.