Tag: fashion
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The History of Paisley Fabric
Paisley is a design that is many hundreds of years old and can be traced back to ancient Persia, now Iran. The fashion for using the pattern spread to many other Asian and Indian countries over the following centuries and it was in the Moghul period between the years 1526-1764 that it became the…
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Indian Influence in 1960’s Fabric Design

In the late 1960s and early 70s there was a great fascination for Eastern cultures. The Beatles especially were very interested in Indian music and were influential in spreading the word widely. Music, art and fabric designed for clothing and interiors all showed this trend. It was a fashionable, especially with the hippy movement to…