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Renowned across the world for a textile pattern it did not invent but perfected and exported globally, Paisley is a former industrial powerhouse of the Scottish textile industry whose name became synonymous with the teardrop-shaped boteh motif woven into thousands of shawls that carried the town's identity to every corner of the Victorian world. The Paisley Pattern — originally a Persian and Kashmiri design brought to Scotland by merchants and weavers — was produced here in such volume, such var...