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Paisley pattern: Kashmir, Scottish, modern in three colourways

Paisley — Boteh the size of a lentil in dense ranked rows, each a bent teardrop with a double outline and a dot inside, tiny flowers filling the ground between them at every angle., paisley repeat, bent teardrops outlined twice and filled with smaller flowers and dot chains, tips curling alternately left and right, fine vines linking one to the next, natural dyes with a slight bleed at the outline

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Reading 2Medium
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The boteh is a teardrop with a bent tip, filled with smaller motifs and outlined twice. These nine hold a Kashmir shawl reading, a bolder Scottish mill reading and a modern simplified version. Ask for a different ground colour and the same bent-tip boteh carries it.

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Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each paisley field is a seamless repeat at A3 proportions, printing clean at A4 or scaling to fabric yardage.
Can I get a different ground colour?
Yes — name any colour, and the same bent-tip boteh with its inner filling renders it.
What's the difference between the three readings?
Kashmir keeps the finer, more layered filling of the original shawl motif; Scottish opens the scale and boldens the outline; modern simplifies the filling for a cleaner, contemporary look.
Is paisley a real historical pattern or an invented one?
Paisley is a genuine motif carried west from Kashmir shawls and named for the Scottish mills that reproduced it; this set draws on that boteh shape as a style reference, not a reproduction of any specific historical shawl.

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This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.