Interesting question! I can't remember seeing an allover paisley print.
Nancy Bradfield ("Costume in Detail" p. 103) describes a "blue silk and
wool dress, made from a shawl, richly woven border in floral cone
kashmir pattern..." I have another fashion plate image somewhere showing
this type of "made from a shawl" gown. In that same book she says
"Kashmir shawls became fashionable in England c. 1777 some designs at
first being copied in turn by Edinburgh, Norwich, and finally by Paisley
weavers. . . The Kashmir-designed shawl with plain field and borders of
large floaral cones was most popular in the first 20 years of the 19th
century." (p. 115) An 1810 plate from Costume Parisien shows a wool gown
with a "cone" border and allover small pattern that looks. more floral
than paisley. (http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/regency/day-plates/1810-day.jpg)
It doesn't look like it was made from a shawl but has the same idea: the
'paisley' looking bit is along the broder.
Of course, this doesn't answer your question! Hmmm...I've started
looking through the extant garments linked at Demode:
http://www.demodecouture.com/realvict/1800s.html
No luck yet but you might want to take a look.
- Hope
Elizabeth Walpole wrote:
Hi everyone, I was discussing the latest ITV adaptation of Jane
Austen's Persuasion with a friend in the UK and she mentioned a 'coat'
with an all over paisley print and asked me if it was period to have a
an all over paisley print like that rather than just as trim.
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