Paisley patterns have a long and storied past in fashion, one that has now been translated into beautiful jewelry shimmering with diamonds. It is thought that the shape was originally inspired by a vegetable motif from ancient Persia, or the blending of a floral spray and cypress tree from India. The pattern was used in textiles from that area and found favor in Europe beginning in the 1600s. Around that time, many fabrics using this theme were woven in the Scottish town of Paisley, leading to the name. The shape has been associated with royalty and mid-twentieth-century counterculture movements influenced by psychedelic and East Indian spirituality. Paisley is now made forever cool in diamonds.YOU MUST HAVE JAVASCRIPT ENABLED TO VIEW THE SLIDESHOW
Photographer: Don Kozusko
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Article from the Rapaport Magazine - February 2014. To subscribe click here.