Blue & White

While the lacy teardrop pattern known as paisley has Persian origins, its western name comes from a town in Scotland named Paisley. A floral motif called buta originated in the Safavid Dynasty of Persia and was a major textile pattern in Iran also during the Qajar Dynasty. This pattern was used to decorate royal regalia, crowns, and court garments. It was also used in textiles used by the general population. 

Pink & Orange

Paisley adapted to its familiar shape in India and spread to Scotland when soldiers returning from the colonies brought home cashmere wool shawls . From roughly 1800 to 1850, the weavers of the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, adapted the design to weave woolen shawls using Jacquard looms, The design then became known as the Paisley pattern.

Paisley Meadows 2

Our hand-drawn paisley patterns were inspired in part by some antique fabric designs. We have noticed that paisley is becoming popular again and we wanted to offer our scrapbooking visitors some different varieties of paisley paper designs. As usual all our papers are free to download so print as many as you like in as many sizes as you like.

Grey Tone

We did a few of our all over paisley designs in grey tone. Believe it or not, when making the 12x12 gray tone papers, the file size was so big we had to split it up into 2 downloads.

Blue & White

These are the exact same designs as in the Blue & White set above only they have a faded, scratched, distressed look. Experiment with your print quality, because you can get drastically different results using draft versus normal or high quality. There is much less difference between normal and high, but as you can see below there are differences between all 3 quality levels. 

The main difference between the normal and high on our scanner is that the high quality has more blue and the normal has more green. Keep in mind this was printed, scanned and then compressed, so depending on your printer, yours may appear slightly different.

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The above image is actually part of our Paisley Meadows 2 Distressed Set that is further down the page

Pink & Orange

These are the exact same designs as in the Pink & Orange set above only they have a faded, scratched, distressed look. Experiment with your print quality, because you can get drastically different results using draft versus normal or high quality. There is much less difference between normal and high, but as you can see in the example above, there are differences between all 3 quality levels

Paisley Meadows 2

These are the exact same designs as in the Paisley Meadows 2 set above only they have a faded, scratched, distressed look. Experiment with your print quality, because you can get drastically different results using draft versus normal or high quality. There is much less difference between normal and high, but as you can see in the example below, there are differences between all 3 quality levels

The main difference between the normal and high on our scanner is that the high quality has more blue and the normal has more green. The high quality print also has a little more color depth. Keep in mind this was printed, scanned and then compressed, so depending on your printer, yours may appear slightly different.

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