{"id":1682,"date":"2021-05-18T18:37:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T22:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2021-09-13T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T21:43:09","slug":"paint-the-town-paisley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/?p=1682","title":{"rendered":"Paint the Town Paisley!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Paint the Town Paisley! Be a part of #ShowUsYourPaisley Exhibit.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Paisley Museum, in Paisley, Scotland <\/span><\/a><\/span>is celebrating its 150th year.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Although closed at this time, the museum is midway through a major 42 million GBP redevelopment with a\u00a0major new exhibit underway around the classic paisley design.<\/span><\/div>\n
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To this end Fashion designer<\/span> Pam Hogg Fashion<\/span><\/a> is<\/span><\/span> leading a call-out for photographs to be submitted of Paisley-patterned items you may have – a unique and different item that incorporatea the classic tear drop paisley design.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The most intriguing items sent to The Paisley Museum will be included in a new exhibit when the Paisley Museum reopens in 2023.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Individuals have till May 30th to submit their photograms to the Museum. Both modern and retro patterns are welcomed! It may be on a suitcase, a pillow, a shawl, or shoes… that tie from the ’60’s – a shawl with tassle fringe.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The familiar curved leaf pattern of paisley, actually originated in Persia, but by the mid-19th century, Paisley, Scotland was producing so much of the lively pattern, it became known as paisley also.<\/span><\/div>\n
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To participate, you must send in your photos by May 30th. <\/span><\/div>\n
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They should be emailed to<\/span> paisleymuseum@renfrewshire.gov.uk<\/span> or shared on social media using #ShowUsYourPaisley and tagging @paisleymuseum. With the photograph, please include a description, and the story behind the object.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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For more on the history of Paisley and its museum, read Scottish Banner\u2019s interesting article in the May 2021 issue at<\/span> www.scottishbanner.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Paint the Town Paisley! Be a part of #ShowUsYourPaisley Exhibit. \u00a0 \u00a0 The Paisley Museum, in Paisley, Scotland is celebrating its 150th year. \u00a0 Although closed at this time, the museum is midway through a major 42 million GBP redevelopment with a\u00a0major new exhibit underway around the classic paisley design. \u00a0 To this end Fashion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[670,668,667,37,669],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}