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ca. 1850 · silk, wool · Costume Institute
Nineteenth century gauze dresses incorporate the romance of the buta motif in fabrics that have no similarity to the original Kashmiri wools. The endemic and indivisible Paisley-wool ligature is dissociated in the West, chiefly because of its extrordinary popularity as it becomes a design motif for all seasons. By the twentieth century, paisley, in the West, came to be associated as much with silk and cotton - notably in home furnishings and men's neckties - as with wool.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1850
- Medium
- silk, wool
- Culture
- American or European
- Department
- Costume Institute
- Credit line
- Gift of Miss Claire Lorraine Wilson, 1942
