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Four Corners of One Cloth: Textiles from the Islamic World

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From Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Yemen - the four corners of the Ka'bah - textiles from our collection will be brought together, extending to the widest reaches of influence of the Islamic world.

This is a past exhibition which ran from 23 June 2018 to 24 November 2019

A section of a Kiswa will form the heart of the exhibition. The Kiswa cloth covers the Ka'bah and is replaced each year during Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). Positioned in the direction of Mecca, it will be seen from the very front of the Whitworth, drawing visitors in.

Burnished indigo, silk embroidered robes, tent hangings and Dervish hats stitched with script will surround the Kiswa. From Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Yemen - the four corners of the Ka'bah - textiles from the Whitworth's collection will be brought together, extending to the widest reaches of influence of the Islamic world.

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Image: Turkish embroidered napkin, 1750-1850
The Whitworth, The University of Manchester

From Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Yemen - the four corners of the Ka'bah - textiles from our collection will be brought together, extending to the widest reaches of influence of the Islamic world.

This is a past exhibition which ran from 23 June 2018 to 24 November 2019

A section of a Kiswa will form the heart of the exhibition. The Kiswa cloth covers the Ka'bah and is replaced each year during Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). Positioned in the direction of Mecca, it will be seen from the very front of the Whitworth, drawing visitors in.

Burnished indigo, silk embroidered robes, tent hangings and Dervish hats stitched with script will surround the Kiswa. From Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Yemen - the four corners of the Ka'bah - textiles from the Whitworth's collection will be brought together, extending to the widest reaches of influence of the Islamic world.

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This page is no longer live and exists only for reference purposes, for this reason the content here may be out of date. If you are looking for something specific at the Whitworth try using our site search From Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Yemen - the four corners of the Ka'bah - textiles from our collection will be brought together, extending to the widest reaches of influence of the Islamic world.

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HISTORY OF PAISLEY | ORIGIN OF PAISLEY SYMBOL & PATTERN

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I am interested in Paisley as this is a symbol I associate with Asian culture, especially, South Asian. I am keen to experiment with the form of Paisley, there are so many styles and so many cultures that Paisley is associated with like for example arabesque. This arabesque art is repetitive pattern  it is intricately handled by this pattern Paisley بته paisley pattern is a textile design this pattern is decorative it is a teardrop motif and at the end it has a curved upper end. This pattern of origins is Persian, this design became popular in the West 18th and 19th century

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The History of the Paisley Symbol and Paisley Pattern

Please note: Pics 1 & 3-11 in this article are very kindly provided by:

the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam) https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en

Portable Antiquities Scheme (London) https://finds.org.uk/

the Los Angeles County Museum of Art http://www.lacma.org/

the Yale Center for British Art (Connecticut) http://britishart.yale.edu/

In recent years these museums have decided to provide a free worldwide copyright policy for a selection of their archived images. The images are in chronological order. Click on each pic to enlarge.

Origins of the Paisley:

Ancient Babylon in present day Iraq is claimed to be one place of origin of the paisley form, possibly dating back to 1700BCE. Another opinion, expressed by Sam Willis in the 2016 BBC TV series The Silk Road, is that the symbol originated from the city of Yazd in Iran. In Yazd originates the weaving of the traditional fabric called a termeh, a cloth made of silk and wool which often included the paisley (boteh) form. Another common theory is that it originated in Persia 200-650 AD during the rule of the Sassanians who created an empire who's armies kept the Romans at bay for centuries.

This empire included what we know roughly as the Middle East, the Caucasus and central Asia. Their culture continues to influence Persian identity right up to the present day (pic 1 - a paisley ornament from Afghanistan C12th-14th). One of the nicknames for paisley shapes since the 18th century, especially by American quilt makers, was "Persian pickles".

The symbol can be best described as a similar shape to a curving teardrop or a kidney. The symbol was called boteh (the Persian word for shrub or cluster of leaves) which is visually a combination of a spray of floral elements and a cypress tree. Centuries later the shape was called Buta almond or bud. The buta shape is the national symbol of Azerbaijan to this day, it symbolizes fire and is most commonly seen on their bright intricate woven carpets and rugs. The buta form in Azerbaijan is related to the Zoroastrian religion that dates back to the first millennium BC. The paisley shape could also be an adaptation of the yin-yang symbol used in ancient Chinese medicine and philosophy.

Many different cultures have used the paisley symbol and consider it to represent many objects including a cashew fruit, a mango or a sprouting date palm, an Indian symbol of fertility. The symbol's shape varies dramatically in different countries from an Indian pine-cone to a Russian cucumber.

Paisleys can possibly also be traced back to Celtic tradition. Before the Roman empire's influence prevailed in Britain, Celtic patterns were used on many highly-decorated metal objects. The Desborough Mirror (pic 2), discovered at an archaeological excavation in Northamptonshire in 1908, was made in the Iron Age period in Britain around 50BC to AD50. I photographed the mirror at a visit to the British Museum, London in April 2015. The bronze mirror's complex swirling engraved symbols, quite similar to paisley forms, can also be seen in their online collection listing. Another example of Celtic artistic creativity is the Wandsworth Shield. This Iron Age bronze shield which was made in Britain around 200BC has a curvilinear decoration of 2 birds with feathers which resemble paisley shapes. This style of design is called La Tène style and an excellent example which definitely resembles 1960's paisley patterns is an enamel pan from 150AD. The bronze pan (pic 3) is called the Staffordshire Moorlands Pan and is Romano-British. The names of four forts on Hadrian's Wall are inscribed along the top of the pan. The paisley pattern is beautifully coloured in shades of red, yellow and shades of blue.

The paisley pattern evolved mainly in The Kingdom of Kashmir. During Mughal Emperor Akbar's reign (1556-1605), shawl-weaving production increased dramatically. It's weavers absorbing influences coming across the borders from nearby China, Middle East and India. Woven paisley shawls were mainly worn by men for ceremonies. These early shawls did not display the paisley shape as we know it today but a curving flower with leaves and a stem, the roots of which have striking similarities to Chinese calligraphy. The way in which symbols from different cultures appear in the development of the paisley pattern show how weavers translated artistic influences from imported ceramics, documents, fabrics into their own designs.

The East India Company imported paisley shawls (adapted from the Persian word shal) from Kashmir and Persia to Europe in large quantities from around 1800. The designs were specifically tailored to cater for each regions particular tastes. In Europe the shawls were worn mainly by women not men. The designs might depict exotic scenes of people on elephants riding past palm trees. For the Middle Eastern customers, the curved geometric paisley shape as we know it today was widely used. This was partly due to the Islamic preference not to depict recognizable natural objects.

European customers gradually preferred more complicated patterns on their shawls. Therefore in Kashmir, to speed up the manufacturing process, the 'patchwork shawl' was invented. Woven pieces of fabric from several looms were joined together to make one shawl.

The French Connection:

Joseph Marie Jacquard introduced the punch card system to looms in Lyon in 1804, resulting in the first programmable loom. This and other advances in technology during the C19th slowly reduced the high levels of child labour in the textile industries because machinery became larger and more complicated so was unsuitable for children to operate. Prior to the jacquard loom, a child would sit on top of each loom raising and lowering the heddles. His invention made weaving 25 times faster with obviously dramatic increases in paisley shawl output.

In 1805, Napoleon and Empress Josephine, his first wife, visited Lyon and viewed Jacquard's new loom and granted the patent resulting in Jacquard receiving a royalty for each loom bought.

Joséphine, the first wife of Napoleon I, reputedly owned hundreds of cashmere shawls. These Indian and Pakistani shawls were brought back from Napoleon's campaigns in countries such as Egypt at the beginning of the c.19th. There are many portraits of Josephine wearing shawls similar in style and colour to pic.7 which were the height of fashion and luxury. The creamy ecru colour is the natural colour of the goat's fleece. Pic.8 is an example of a beautifully designed and coloured shawl woven in Lyon between 1850-1870.

British shawl production:

British production of woven shawls began in 1790 in Norwich, England but to a greater extent in 1805 in the small town of Paisley, Scotland. Roughly equal quantities of imported Kashmiri and home-produced British shawls were bought in Britain in the mid C19th. The former retained their popularity despite their much higher prices. The main reason being that cashmere is actually hair from a goat and these fine hairs are soft and provide excellent insulation. Cashmere was therefore preferred to sheep's wool which was regarded as much less luxurious. Also the superior Kashmiri looms produced fully reversible fabric with many more colours. Initially the British shawls were only 2-colour, usually indigo and madder. At it's peak from c.1850 -1860 the town of Paisley employed 6,000 weavers.

The name "Paisley":

Due to the huge scale of shawl production in Paisley, Scotland, the pattern was given the name 'paisley'. The name 'paisley' is not an international name for the pattern, it is called palme in France, bota in Netherlands, bootar in India and peizuli in Japan.

The Scottish town was named Paisley as far back as the 7th century. The first church was built on the abbey site in 7th century. An ancient Celtic language was spoken in Britain at this time. 'Paisley' derives from the word Passeleg which means 'basilica' indicating a major church. The church was given abbey status in 1245. Parts of the current abbey date back to 1163. William Wallace, the Scottish knight and national hero of Scottish independence was educated in the abbey. The expansion of the textile industry in the town dates back to the 17th century and is evident with street names which include the words thread, silk, shuttle and cotton. Paisley is part of Renfrewshire, 1 of 32 Scottish councils; it uses the paisley symbol as it's official logo.

Popularity:

In Britain in the C19th the paisley shawl was the 'must-have' accessory of its day, a status symbol worn for important occasions and recorded in numerous portrait paintings. Until photography had become more available in the late 19th century, paintings recorded fashion trends. These paintings are now a valuable resource for mapping stages in the development of paisley patterns and variations in shawl shapes and sizes. Ford Maddox Brown's painting (pic.10) from 1860 shows that even a poor girl on the street selling flowers is wearing the fashion of the day, possibly a gift from a sympathetic passer-by on a cold day. William Holman Hunt's painting The Awakening Conscience (1853 - The Tate Britain, London) shows the woman wearing a red paisley shawl draped around her middle and tied at the front, probably brought back by the man from an overseas trip.

Paisley patterns, intricate dynamic interlocking shapes in exciting colour combinations appealed to a wide market. Wool and silk blended yarns were used in Britain, as Tibetan goat hair down was not readily available. A rather unsuccessful attempt was made to rear cashmere goats in Essex, England in 1818. A small herd bred from two imported goats from Kazakhstan only produced very small amounts of the underfleece as the British weather wasn't cold enough. The rearing was then abandoned.

Design Copyright:

Paisley designs in Britain were one of the first examples of copyright protection in the creative fields. Copyrights for paisley designs date back to the 1840's.

Paisley Decline and Diversification:

Developments in printing technology in Europe in C19th enabled factories to mass-produce printed paisley fabrics and cater for the worldwide demand. This brought about the decline in the demand for woven shawls and by 1860 many of the weavers had emigrated to Australia and Canada due to poverty.By the late C19th paisley designs had acquired wider uses appearing in prints and embroideries but this did not stop the paisley shawl's decline in popularity in conjunction with a famine in Kashmir in the 1880's. The dolman (pic.11) is a fine example of C19th recycling; the large woven shawls, no longer in fashion by 1880, were adapted as jackets, dolmans and capes. The weavers, especially in Paisley, had to listen to merchants who would advise them on possible new markets. An example of this was supplying paisley ponchos for the South America market.

The paisley pattern designs used for the shawls continued to be used as examples of technical visual perfection. Detailed hand-drawn colour plans on paper from 1840's and 1850's were used as visual aids to assist the teaching of design students on a variety of courses at Glasgow School of Art from 1920's to late 1940's.

Paisley patterns were still worn in the first half of the 20th century but not as a mainstream trend. A painting from 1918 of artist Vanessa Bell in The National Portrait Gallery by Duncan Grant (1885 - 1978) shows her wearing a red paisley pattern dress. Noel Coward was often photographed wearing a paisley smoking jacket or dressing gown, very similar to those worn by the stylish detective Sherlock Holmes. Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra were also famous for sporting silk smoking jackets with bold paisley prints when they performed in Las Vegas or attended lavish parties. Frank Sinatra wore paisley ties, including bow ties, frequently in the 1930's and 1940's. Images of paisley shawls continued to be used in popular culture. Pic 13 shows a book cover from 1939.

The Big Comeback:

Not until the late 1960's did paisleys return to their former glory in the fashion world. The new attraction to exotic musical and artistic influences catapulted them back into the boutiques, magazines and adorned the hippest pop icons of the day, most noticeably The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Kinks, The Who and The Small Faces. Carnaby Street was the place to shop for the latest paisley fashions. John Stephen, a talented gay Glaswegian, known as The King of Carnaby Street, was the leading designer/tailor for menswear in London in the 60's. He was one of the main designers contributing to The Peacock Revolution, a flamboyant, vivid, menswear fashion trend that enabled men to wear bold patterns including flashy spirited paisley prints. He dressed the leading rock stars of the day in his 15 different boutiques on Carnaby Street with shop names like Domino Male and Male West One. The Beatles in 1968 began to regularly visit India and embrace its philosophy, music and of course paisley fabrics. The paisley design was commonly associated with rebellion; it was a statement of non-conformity, a welcome alternative to the preceding sober mod fashion trends. It was the perfect print for the androgynous hedonistic counterculture of the hippies. The hippie look is strongly linked to the psychedelic "Summer of Love" when 100,000 people came together in Haight-Ashbury, a district of San Francisco, California to share their common beliefs such as rejecting consumerist values and encouraging pacifism. Paisley patterns and other fabrics from around the world helped encourage a spirit of multiculturalism and, for the wearer, were visual statements of this principle.

Since the 1960's the paisley has bounced back onto the catwalks and into the high streets every few years. At the other end of the spectrum it became a sign of affiliation in gang culture. The bandana, named after the Hindi term "to tie", was originally a makeshift dust-mask for cowboys and a way of disguising their faces until it was adopted by the gangs of Los Angeles in the late 60's and then used by rock stars and their fans ever since.

The paisley pattern has had many other musical connections. In 1971 Dory Previn, wife of Andre Previn, released the song The Lady with the Braid. Her lyrics mention paisley in the following line "you'll find an extra towel on the rack on the paisley patterned papered wall". In 1982 the British new wave band Television Personalities released the album 'They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles' which includes the song 'The Boy In The Paisley Shirt' about a groovy fella who should be let out of his groovy cellar. It amusingly mocks late 60's fashions and namechecks Kathy McGowan and Mary Quant. In 1997 they released the live album 'Paisley Shirts & Mini Skirts'. Also in 1982, 5,000 miles away on America's west coast, a new psychedelic genre was developing called the Paisley Underground. This neo-psychedelic movement included the bands: The Bangles, The Dream Syndicate, Green on Red, The Long Ryders and The Three O'Clock to name a few. This movement inspired pop icon Prince to convey a strong psychedelic sound on his 1985 album 'Around the World in a Day'. The first single on the album 'Paisley Park' came in an organic interlocking paisley printed record sleeve with paisley typeface. He also named his record label and recording studios, Paisley Park Records and Paisley Park Studios giving his royal seal of approval to the paisley pattern. Incidentally, in 1984 he wrote 'Manic Monday' for the Bangles, and signed the Three O'Clock to Paisley Park Records. With song titles such as 'Joy in Repetition', Prince easily appeals to textile designers generally. In the 1991 hit record "Get Off" by Prince, he sings the lyric "Here we are in my paisley crib".

After his untimely death on 21st April 2016, Alona Elkayam in The Huffington Post in her article titled Paisley: A Pattern Made For A Prince, she said in tribute "Prince, like the paisley, your music and your name will transcend generations and cultures. Thank you"

Florence Welch, singer of the band Florence and the Machine said in 2011 "I must get a couple of shirts made from the paisley design - I love paisley". Stella McCartney and Kenzo must have heard her plea. Florence became a paisley style icon in 2012 wearing gorgeous paisley suits and dresses by these two premier designers. Her collection for Liberty Art Fabrics called 'Grace' was a reinterpretation of vintage paisleys from the Liberty-print archives.

2010's and The Future:

The universal popularity of the paisley print means new designs receive prime positioning in magazines, websites and shop windows. One garish design which received mass media coverage around the world appeared at the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Azerbaijan team sported modern graphic colourful paisley trousers, which gave the small team (only 2 competitors) great exposure at the opening ceremony.

The tradition of the paisley shawl in British culture is referenced in works by contemporary artists such as the Turner Prize-winning potter Grayson Perry as can be seen in pic 14.

In 2009 the highly respected clothing label Pretty Green was launched with Liam Gallagher at it's helm as founder and designer. It was named 'Menswear Brand of the Year' at the Drapers Fashion Awards in 2010. Exclusive paisley prints are constantly present in the collections as shirts, polos or shoes with signature paisley inner liners.

The Italian fashion house (Milan) continue to produce undoubtedly the most beautiful paisley fashion prints in the world every season. Girolamo Etro created the Etro brand in 1968 in Milan. He was a famous collector of art, from ancient Roman sculptures to 20th century painters such as Giorgio de Chirico. He amassed a collection of 150 Kashmir paisley shawls dating from 1810 to 1880. He introduced the paisley pattern into the Etro fabric collections in the early 1980s. They were so successful that the label is now the brand most closely associated with the paisley pattern. Pic 15 is a photo of colourful paisley-patterned print swatches, which I took at the Missoni Art Colour exhibition at The Fashion and Textile Museum London in 2016. The swatches were from the collection of the famous Italian fashion house . Thank you to the museum for allowing me to take photographs.

Closer to home, Liberty of London continuously reinvent the paisley print as can be seen from the beautiful silk scarf in pic16. In recent years, catwalk collections from many major designers including Balenciaga, Jill Sander, Jonathan Saunders and Stella McCartney have all featured exciting new takes on the paisley. The Massimo Dutti spring/summer 2014 collection featured an array of paisleys in blue shades including engineered scarf print garments. Actress Kate Hudson was featured on the front page of InStyle magazine in July 2014 wearing a stylish red and pale blue paisley bikini. Lauren Laverne's feature in The Observer in May 2014 entitled "Eye-popping Paisley" highlighted the importance of the paisley print "essential to achieve the boho look or festival chic, the paisley would be the dominant statement print through summer and autumn but mostly looking ahead to the autumn and winter 2014 collections".

2014 saw the launch of Paisley Power, the brand created by UK textile designer Patrick Moriarty. Patrick creates modern interpretations of the paisley pattern. His fabric print designs are regularly used to make top-selling fashion garments and textile-based home-ware items manufactured by major international retailers. His most popular and recognized design is his paisley rat print (see pic).

In February 2015 Rebecca Gonzales' double-page feature in The Independent newspaper, stresses the importance of Persian paisleys in the latest Seventies revival. Entitled "Get Your Groove On", the article says the seventies are back and provide perennial inspiration for summer collections. 2015 saw the return of the paisley poncho for men and women. Paisley nightwear was a bestseller with the Mirror newspaper announcing "M&S (Marks and Spencer) rapidly sold out of pure cotton paisley patterned pajamas".

In 2016 several leading fashion houses have included paisley patterns in their spring summer collections. These include Gucci, Isabel Marant and Saint Laurent.

In 2016, British fashion designer Alexa Chung collaborated with Marks and Spencer to produce a collection. She revived several vintage pieces from the M&S archive, including a 1950's "Eliza" paisley mini-dress, which received favorable coverage in the Daily Telegraph article on 19th February 2016 .

In 2017 Pringle of Scotland, the luxury knitwear brand, in collaboration with Paisley Museum will be using archive paisley patterns in their autumn/winter 2017 collection. The brand had previously used paisley patterns in the 1960's so it is a welcome return for paisleys to feature in the Pringle knitwear range. You can read more about this collaboration in the article titled Paisley Pattern 'on trend' with Pringle on the Paisley 2021 website.

To accompany our love of paisley fashion, we can surround ourselves in paisley furnishing fabrics, wallpapers, screensavers and iPhone cases. They all prove that this organic symbol whether flower, tree or sprouting seed is so adaptable it will continue to grow in any direction a designer desires for decades to come. Whilst I'm on the subject of growing, there is even a hosta plant called "Lakeside Paisley Print" bred by Mary Chastain in the 1990s. She is a horticulturist who lives near the shore of Lake Chickamauga in eastern Tennessee. Her hosta has leaves that resemble paisley forms with cream feather markings in the centre of paisley shaped wavy edged leaves.

Preservation for Future Generations:

In 2015 a project began at the Paisley Museum, Scotland, to digitally record it's entire collection of 1200 paisley shawls, most of which are approximately 200 years old. It is one of the largest paisley shawl collections in the world and is officially listed as a Recognized Collection of National Significance to Scotland. Each shawl will be carefully photographed and scanned. The museum are also making digital copies of all of it's pattern books, so that there will be a detailed reference facility of thousands of historic paisley patterns. This is one of many projects at the museum where a high priority is conservation of many aspects of its fascinating paisley heritage. The project was completed in June 2016.

In September 2016 the curator of textiles at Paisley Museum, Dan Coughlan, was featured in the Independent newspaper as part of the town's PaisleyMake Festival of Creativity and Design. This 4-day event was a chance for designers and crafts practitioners to celebrate and discover Paisley's textile heritage. Speakers included representatives from local businesses in the fashion and textile industry. Dan Coughlan gave a talk about the museum's historic paisley pattern collection.

A new digital art project is now on view at Paisley Museum from 2nd November 2016 until 15th January 2017. The project will create 7.3 billion paisley patterns. That's definitely enough to put me out of business! This huge number of patterns reflects the enormous quantity of paisley patterns created in the town of Paisley in the past. Obviously the town's 19th and 20th century weavers did not create billions of patterns but they did create more than any other town or city in the world over a 100-year period. Admittedly some of the designs woven in Paisley town were copies of designs created by the native weavers of Kashmir but many designs were created in Scotland by Scottish designers. The software used to create the new digital paisley patterns enables the images to be viewed on a high definition screen which has been mounted on a replica of a 19th century weaving loom. The project is described as "transforming the world famous Paisley pattern for the digital age."

the future's bright and the future's paisley!

Congratulations to Paisley, Scotland for reaching the final shortlist in the bid for the UK City of Culture 2021. The BBC described Paisley as follows "this Renfrewshire town, population 76,000, is perhaps most famous for the Paisley print - the intricate, colourful designs that were inspired by Kashmiri patterns in the 18th Century and popularised in the psychedelic 1960s." Unfortunately Paisley was not chosen as the winning city; Coventry was the winner.

Japanese Fashion designer Yoshio Kubo, graduate of Philadelphia university in 2000, has used bandanas and paisley prints in an exciting way in his Fall / Winter 2017-18 menswear collection.

In May 2018 pop singer Miley Cyrus collaborated with iconic shoe brand Converse to launch a new range of garments and trainers with paisley patterns. The fashion & footwear collection is described as vegan as she is a passionate animal rights activist, which means the collection was manufactured without animal cruelty.

On 23rd May 2018 Charlie Gowans-Eglinton, Senior fashion editor of The Telegraph, UK Newspaper, has published an article titled " Fed up with florals? This season's paisleys pack a print punch". It confirms the importance of paisley prints in fashion in 2018. Included in the article is a concise history of the paisley pattern emphasizing it's cool cultural connections through the centuries.

The Alexander McQueen Fall 2018 menswear collection has some innovative new interpretations of the paisley symbol and paisley pattern.

If you have the opportunity to visit Milan, Italy make sure you visit "Etro: Generation Paisley". The exhibition is at the Mudec Museum. The Etro fashion family are experts at creating beautiful paisley fashion collections every year. This exhibition has been curated by the family and Judith Clark of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Luke Leitch, Vogue journalist wrote in his article dated September 24, 2018 "The Etro-defining shift to paisley, an ancient central Asian pattern based on the seed of the date palm, happened in the '80s". (The exhibition has) "rooms dedicated to Etro's excellent campaigns over the years" and "There is also an awesome digital installation in which visitors can look further and further into the apparently infinite complexity of Etro's patterns". Highly recommended!

On April 11th 2020, in the Independent newspaper online was an article by Luke Brown titled: Reasons for sports fans to stay positive, which read "Just when you think you have seen every possible variation of football kit, the good people at Puma come up with something utterly magical. One word: PAISLEY. Manchester City's third kit for the 2020/21 season will have, wait for it, a Whisper-White & Peacoat paisley print pattern. Now if that isn't an incentive to scrap the current season and skip ahead right this very second, I don't know what is."

Let's hope the other teams follow suit and require their own unique paisley designs! To view the Manchester City paisley design, see the image on this page.

For contemporary paisley-pattern fabric products designed by Patrick Moriarty, take a look at the new Paisley Power shop, which Patrick launched using Squarespace website-building software. A large selection of his textile designs are available to buy as lengths of fabric by the yard or metre in his Spoonflower store.

Patrick Moriarty

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I had a heart transplant and a stroke so I had to start at the beginning and my sisters were so understanding because I didn’t understand anything and I love them so much I did this like Jean michel basquiat. Are used paper instead of Finding scraps and a door and are used colour pencils. His signature sign is The crown on top of Black people  but I changed it because me and my family are Asians, Pakistani. I put a scarf around my sisters and myself. Matthew Collings has used coloured pencils and I really like his way of art because it is abstract. It looks A child has made this art piece in this or that I made this is the time that I had nearly got a heart transplant. Allah has given me another chance of living .

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When I had a heart transplant and a stroke you can see my mum is crying because she wants to protect me find I am crying as well because seeing her crying makes me unhappier. And I have done it continuous line, fine liner. I did something like Pablo Picasso‘s because he did continuous line and his backstory is very dark and gloomy. And I relate to his story Because he talked about his sister being ill and my mum wanted to protect me and my mama is still caring for me. Pablo Picasso wanted to show feelings of war. He used lines to draw animals and give detail to add some shadow which gives the painting dramatic feeling. However I showed that I have feelings with my family and my mum as you can see this painting is very sentimental because I have said everything that how I feel towards my mum.

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Picasso was born in October 25,1881 and died in April 8, 1973.

Although he was born in Spain, he lived most of his life in France.

Picasso was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and stage designer.

He was a great influential artist of the 20th century.

Picasso was a tremendous artist with diversity. In his early teens he developed extraordinary drawing and painting skills.

He experimented with a variety of themes and styles Picassos seven year old sister had some difficulty due to having Picassos seven year old sister had some difficulty due to having diptheria it is very highly contagious bacterial disease causing inflammation of the mucous membranes, it is the action of being processing of a false membrane in the throat which hinders or difficult breathing and swallowing, and potentially fatal heart and nerve damage by a bacterial toxin in the blood. It is nowhere to be found found of people that have got it due to changing ways of the hospital circumstances. When Pablo Picasso was going through a tough time known as though the blue period he was a successful artist but during that time it caused many depression and poverty And along with tragedy. When he was 19 he came along with At the time, he was running with a group of radical artists, writers, and anarchists , Picasso or made friends with  Carles Casagemas he was Spanish poet but that ended because he shot him self at the middle of a dinner party. Pablo Picasso got loads of opportunity to go to Barcelona and Paris because it was close to his home town, Although he got loads of opportunity to go to loads of areas he felt very depressed. he began  painting because of his friend Carles Casagemas and so the blue period started he started using cool colours like blue yellowish green and dark blue And sickly greens as well. This painting that he did of his friend who deeply meant a lot to him  One of the first he produced, The Death of Casagemas (1901), responded directly to Casagemas’s suicide. The oil-on-wood work shows the poet’s bluish-green face swaddled in white blankets. He looks almost peaceful, as if sleeping, but Picasso’s addition of a bullet hole on his subject’s temple lays the tragedy bare. It is called Pablo Picasso, The Death of Casagemas, 1901.

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He was from Castleford in Yorkshire and was born in July 1898. He is famous for making bronze sculptures which are usually abstract human form. He also did drawings. Some of them show people in London sheltering during the Blitz in World War 2. He often used charcoal. In this painting you can see Henry Moore and his wife took The tunnel because the car was being repaired and they wanted to meet their friends. They were astonished that people were lying down huddled together. Moores was astonished that the London underground that civilians were huddled together to stay safe during the fourth Night of the nazi air raids now known the Blitz. Although my drawing is very different to the mood that they showed but I wanted to use that material to experiment.

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Paisley بته paisley pattern is a textile design this pattern is decorative it is a teardrop motif and at the end it has a curved upper end. This pattern of origins is Persian, this design became popular in the West 18th and 19th century

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In the early 1960 Lange’sDoctor said that she had only months to live But she wanted to make Projects that she wanted to remember this time. Lange was born in Hoboken, New Jersey and  her when she was born is 1895 her date 26th. She died October 11th, 1965 age 70,Location is San Francisco California us. She graduated off the wadleigh high school for girls from New York City. Her college friend had a trip they wanted to travel the world and they’re first Drop they travelled in Cruise is New Orleans plannedShe had already decided that,she would become a photographer. She didn’t have a Camera but she was determined to go in that pathway.Lange had polio, that means she had a weak limp in her right leg. She said this- It formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me, and humiliated me," Lange once said of her altered gait. "I've never gotten over it, and I am aware of the force and power of it." This quoteReally resonates with me because I had a stroke in 2009So my right side is weak that means I have a limp on my right side of my leg years later father left his family and she forgot her last name and took her mothers maiden name. Well she was growing up her mother was Single parent and. her mother work. she was left alone wondering the streets observing the New York, she was fascinated by the people so she could document those skills she observed while she was not intruding so that she could use this opportunity by doing documentary photographer.She is known for doing documentary photography photojournalism, her  notable Work is  1936 photograph of Florence Owens Thompsons and other. She was known for depression era. She left in 1918 with female friend thinking that they could travel the world but she got robbed. Later on she settled in San Francisco, where she got theshop of a photographic supply as a finisher, she met photographer he invested her Portrait studio. Who is studio mainly focused on portrait photos, she took her camera into the streets like freality

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She was a French-American artist.she was Born 25 December 1911,Pars,France and she died 31 May 2010,Manhattan,New York,united,Michel Goldwatershe was the middle child off three Born.Bourgeois was known for large-scale sculpture and installation art. She was also on prolifc painter and printmaker.she said” transforms nasty works into good work. Her father has a mistress she was introduced by her family by a teacher, The mistress was living there in 10 years, The motivation of her work was negative she used it is a language that makes me work.bourgeois had a traumatic childhood She realise that she needed this trauma she needed to wake up to face those memories. After her fathers death she was very depressed but she did have a difficult relationship with him but she cared about him.Bourgeois explored a variety of Domesticity,sexuality and unconscious this was all linked to her childhood which thought that it was a therapeutic process. She magnified  by doing abstract expressionists and how Work is like surrealism and feminist. Bourgeois notice for work is a spider,cells,madman,cumulus l,the destruction of the father. Her movement is modernism,surrealism and feminist art.hating to love” that’s what makes her think. large-scale  are three personage The sculpture is the mother,father and the child she said she doesn’t care that the mother and the father of the identity of the sculptures but she said that she is the child. She is very intelligent and sometimes she could be like a child.Bougeois was one of those people who had anxiety and anxious. She could make work or attack. Art kept her sanity balanced she wanted to Express her feelings. She was very clear what she wanted to do.
of her family and everybody at the dinner

table she supposed to Bring entertainment at the end of the meal there were supposed to sing or recite, she am his father was this kind of entertainment. When the tangerine was done with drawing a figure he would cut it and see what is inside In the system. Inside it was a boy because of the prior Park is not a girl.

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She was born 12 November 1960 Beibane Australia, she was a Australian artist and she use photography,video. In 2017 moffatt  represented Australia at the 57th Venice biennale with her solo exhibition “my horizon” her education is Queensland college of art and her university was Griffith university,south Bank campusmoffatt artwork is something more,Doll Birth and many more. Nomination is  Australian film Institute award for best experimental. I am focusing about Mother’s Day 1975,1994. She focused on feminist art she thought that any women who did art is doing that feminist statement. Feminism is the definition of women’s right. She did this short film the name was called burning Down the house and the actors were black women the roles are maids, servants. She New About Hollywoods dreadful racism.

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She’s a French fashion designer and she was born August 1883 France, she died in 10th of January 1971 age 87. Her father left her and she became a orphan and her mother passed away. She was known for Chanel bag and other products. Her occupation, in the orphanage they learn how to solve, she had an idea of making her own clothes. is dressmaker and fashion designer. Chanel was credited off World War One. Her clothes are very comfortable. She got known in the 20th century however she was not born into wealth. This was during the war. she change the era of wearing corsets and she didn’t like Off men choosing women to wear Bella park into comfortable clothes that women can wear easily. She made different items like adding colour outfits and different hats. She want to follow Fashion trends. She was very determined to make the best out of her life. In the 17th French Fashions century the most important so that woman had some kind of training, so this was provided in the fourth Orphanage. She left the orphanage and she became a seamstress and this is when she learned about menswear. She wanted to be free and do her own Thing. She married wifey men in her love life and she got contact with famous people. want to blend in she wanted to stand out.
She decided to play with men clothes and women’s clothes, she decided to dress her own way, The people were interested off her dressing. She decided to make hats that she has learned of her mother‘s family, she had spent summer holidays with her mothers family. She’s back home to open her first shop while she was 27 years old. She had affordable Materials. Her clothes made a big hit,so she opened her own boutique. In 1913 she want a jersey suit, Jersey was used by men’s undergarment. In the war there was not many textile. This suit was very successful. She experimented masculine and feminine. Her fabric is flannel jersey,Lennon. She made history of her little black dress, she had already experimented of her use by black dress,it was long and had a colour. So she made a short version of it. At first it caused a shock but later on Women started to see how good it was. By the 1930s The house of Chanel was very known. It was very feminine and glamorous however they had a masculine Side. She had a certain colour palette like black that she believed that it provides the essential white and the white that eliminate beige like warm and golden attracting and red The colour of the life.

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Prophe Ibrahim was born into idol worshipper’s family.As he was growing up he knew that Allah is the only one who should be worshipped. He always obeyed Allah’s commands. One day Allah ordered him to take his son  and his wife,bibi Hajrah and his son Ismail to makkah.At that time makkah was a unfertile  City In Saudis Arabia. This city didn’t have water or trees or even no one was living there.Prophet  ibrahim left some dates and water and told her that he is going back . When bibi  Hajrah  found out she got worried as the land was so deserted ,how she and his baby son would survive. She tried to persuade prophet Ibrahim but he didn’t say a word as he was walking away his wife asked  him “did Allah send you  command that you’re going to leave me and our baby to Makkah?”  Prophet Ibahim said yes,Bibi Hajrah  Felt relieved, she placed her trust on Allah.She said to him”Allah Will protect us he would never neglect us”Bibi Hajrah nurses Ismail and survived only with the dates and water that they had but eventually The date and the water ran out. Soon both got hungry and thirsty.Bibi Hajrah cannot produce any milk as she didn’t eat any food,Ismail was crying desperately as he was thirsty. She knew she would have to go and find water so she left Ismail on the ground and run between the too hills called Safa and Marwa to look for water ,she ran between the two hills seven times Bibi Hajrah could not find any water .Isahim was crying non-stop .As Ismail was crying and rubbing his heels to the ground , Bibi Hajrah noticed water started coming out from the spot where Ismail was rubbing his heels out of hunger . Carefully she collected some water and gave the water to Ismail. That water was the blessing and came out of that place by the order of Allah for baby Ismail, water was coming nonstop so Bibi Hajrah quickly said Zum Zum ,which means stop stop, but that special  water didn’t stop , it’s a miracle of Allah so it wouldn’t run out ever .People started to move to makkah because now it had water. Water is a source of life,Then it became a important city as people started to settle down there. This was the reward for Prophrt Ibrahem and Bibi Hajrah by trusting on Allah.we Always trust Allah.

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Kaaba is Arabic word and it is called the cube it is called the black stone because one last brick was soon change colour into white and black so that’s why it’s called the black stone and Allah said pure stone would be put on kaaba.Muhammad is born 570,Makkah it’s famous for two reasons there is a agent mosque  and secondly profit Mohammed was born in Makkah.in this time this religion there are many 360 idols and this didn’t help anybody it was a hard time as Mohammed believed in Allah  Mohammed‘s dad his name is Abdullah d.570 died before he was born and his mother her name is Aminah d.576 died when he was only six, So he was brought up by his grand father his name abulul muttalib and when he died d.578. Mohammed Uncle his name Abu talib had the responsibility Mohammed was safe. Mohammed started up shuttle 580 and then became a businessman selling stuff from rich clients 585. When he did some work from home rich widow, khadija got impressed by him. her and him got married 595. Mohammed  became wealthy but for a while. Every year from Ramadan” The night of power 610”. There was a big party from Ramadan people made sacrifices of their idols although Mohammed hated this. So if you get up to Town and sleep in a cave that he found and then one night he was praying to Allah all of a sudden injured jibraieel English name is gabriel appeared right and in front of jibraieel grab hold his hand said to him read read read three  times and Mohammed recited words of my heart Mohammed recite the message out loud He said read who created in the name of your lord Who created man from a drop of blood read for your Lord allah most generous allah who taught by the pen put Man who he would not know. It was a message but Allah. I love was speaking to Mohammed just like the profits in the Quran which means Muhammad was also a prophet. Message the prophet Muhammad throughout his whole life 632. Allah gave the prophet the words to say and he recited it. Oh throughout the time recited words became the Quran which means the holy book 635. Mohammed tells his family and his friends and eventually everybody New about Allah that he is only one God and allah once everybody to be treated fairly. They didn’t handle it well. Islam means obedient by Allah and Muslim means  that obeys Allah.the people who believed in Muhammad’s message the most of them were given a hard time in 615. People hate it on them and killed and Tortured so some of them escape Aksum but most of them was stuck in makkah.mahatmas had to cope of his wife’s death 619.and then just a fe weeks later his uncle death as well. Mohammed was feeling very upset so he went to the Kaaba to pray for allah jebrisilk appeared out of nowhere and put him down in a winged horse riding him to go to straight two mkkah to jerusalem. Alongside that prays strong five times a day he flies back to Mecca. The Muslims called it the night journey in 620. There was another city called Yathrib and the people there have already heard message Mohammed and the people there have invited them and a few at a time do Muslims start the live Mecca how moved therey in yathrib. They had to face many hard task to get there, they had to migrate which means in Arabic hydra although Muhammad and a few of his friends stayed in macca told everybody has gone away and then they decided to make a plan to escape macca. But then ruling families wanted to kill Mohammed. So the seventh son One in each family Play wanted to kill him when he was sleeping Put Mohammed was gone Because Mohammed  Way ahead  off them. They were finding Mohammed.Abubakr One of Mohammed‘s friend. Mohammed took a roundabout into Makkah to get into mount thawed. But the people inMakka go to good to track him down. So Mohammed and his friend went to a cave and prayed to allah. The trackers found a Cave but they didn’t bother to go in they thought that Mohammed wouldn’t go in because they Cave had spiderwebs and birds as well. Mohammed safely got into Yarhrib which was renamed medina or nuby The city of profit. Do you want three big bottles muslims and  makins first the battle of butter.  Turn off the one this time and this time there was a battle off Uhud. Some of the men disobey Mohammed‘s orders and run off. Makkah One this time turn there was a battle off trench madinah The Muslim has protected three of the mountains and dug a hole to get to the fourth mountain The Muslim made at camp but the weather was awful, eventually the people of makkah gave up and the Muslims one Second time. It was all a bit messed up. The people off Makkah where are joining the Muslims most of them Mohammed had enough and decided that they should sign a contract that moxon’s and the Muslims who is Makepeace but soon the paper had been my other people off makkah torn apart ruling families have made a big mistake but it was too late all they can do is surrender and hope that the Muslim army would have killed them quickly and that they would be no fighting.the prophetMohammed went to Kaaba and circled it seven times anti clockwise and broke all the idols readedicating the Kaaba to allah.they were allowed to show Prophet Muhammad because The Muslim wanted to make it clear that they only worship only Allah. Didn’t have any pictures of Mohammed in case that they thought that he was an idol and that they didn’t have any pictures of a lot because allah what is it anything off this earth so they didn’t draw allah anyways.

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Good work Aroob, this is a great start to developing your theme ideas. Your planning has supported you to explore ideas 

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Good work Aroob, this is a great start to developing your theme ideas. Your planning has supported you to explore ideas 

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Good use of line, tone and colour, different techniques, blending and smudging to help you achieve a style like Adolf Valette and LS Lowry.  Choose some of their artworks to add to your research. 

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Good use of line, tone and colour, different techniques, blending and smudging to help you achieve a style like Adolf Valette and LS Lowry.  Choose some of their artworks to add to your research. 

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Wonderful photos Aroob. The cherry blossom video with the sounds of nature and the wind blowing is beautiful. Explore this further, respond to the sounds of nature through drawing and the movement of the cherry blossom. Is this your family garden? 

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Wonderful photos Aroob. The cherry blossom video with the sounds of nature and the wind blowing is beautiful. Explore this further, respond to the sounds of nature through drawing and the movement of the cherry blossom. Is this your family garden? 

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=IdByOJh71Ik

Our islamic believe that Allah is not a person neither Isla isn’t a he or she and Allah is it married or relative and this Qawwali which  isn’t a song I have put the reference of English.

Note: This song 'Kun Faya Kun' is actually a Qawwali which is taken from the Holy Book of Islam

know as 'Quran'. This song is sung in the resting place of a Sufi saint known as 'Hazrat Nizamuddin'

and this place is visited by thousands everyday. In the movie, Ranbir Kapoor after being thrown out

of his own house, aimlessly wanders to this shrine situated in Delhi. He spends some time there

listening to the prayers of other preachers, singers and also of the priests and he gets connected

with God and gains inspiration from him. They sing these Arabic verses, 'Kun Faya Kun' which literally

translate 'Be as it is'. There is constant praising of God and Hazrat Nizamuddin in these verses.

Ya Nizamuddin Auliya

Oh! God's messenger Nizamuddin (the ruler of saints)

Ya Nizamuddin Salka

Oh! Nizamuddin, friend of the fallen

Kadam badha le

Move Your feet forward

Haddon ko mita le

Finish these distances

Aaja khalipan mein pee ka ghar tera

Enter this void(home of Your beloved), it is empty without You

Tere bin khali aaja khalipan mein

Without You there is this emptiness, Come

Tere bin khali aaja khalipan mein

Without You there is this emptiness, Come

Ooo...

Rangreza Rangreza

Rangreza aa.....

Ho o ... Rangreza Rangreza

(Rangreza means the one who fills with colour and here it is referred to as God/Allah)

Kun fayakun Kun fayakun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Fayakun fayakun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Kun fayakun Kun fayakun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Fayakun fayakun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Jab kahin pe kuch nahi bhi nahi tha

When there was nothing nowhere to be found

Wahi tha Wahi tha Wahi tha Wahi tha

He was there even then

Jab kahin pe kuch nahi bhi nahi tha

When there was nothing nowhere to be found

Wahi tha Wahi tha Wahi tha Wahi tha

He was there even then

Woh jo mujh me samaya woh jo tujh me samaya

He is the one who is inside of Me, He is the one who is inside of You

Maula wahi wahi maaya

God is the mystery

Woh jo mujh me samaya woh jo tujh me samaya

He is the one who is inside of Me, He is the one who is inside of You

Maula wahi wahi maaya

God is the mystery

Kun fayakun Kun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Sadaq allahu ali ul azeem

Allah is the truth, the magnificence and the nature

Rangreza rang mera tann mera mann

Oh Painter(God/Allah), Paint my body and soul

Le le rangaai chahe tann chahe mann

Take away the colours from my body and soul

Rangreza rang mera tann mera mann

Oh Painter(God/Allah), Paint my body and soul

Le le rangaai chahe tann chahe mann

Take away the colours from my body and soul

Sajra savera mere tann barse

The morning rain showers blessings on my body

Kajra andhera teri jalti lau

It purifies the dark parts of my soul

Sajra savera mere tann barse

The morning rain showers blessings on my body

Kajra andhera teri jalti lau

It purifies the dark parts of my soul

Qatra mila jo tere darr barse

Every drop of purity that You gave me, nourished me

O Maulaa...Maulaa... aa...

Oh Lord!

Kun fayakun Kun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Kun fayakun Kun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Fayakun Kun fayakun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Fayakun fayakun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Aaa...Kun fayakun Kun fayakun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Fayakun fayakun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Jab kahin pe kuch nahi bhi nahi tha

When there was nothing nowhere to be found

Wahi tha Wahi tha Wahi tha Wahi tha

He was there even then

Jab kahin pe kuch nahi bhi nahi tha

When there was nothing nowhere to be found

Wahi tha Wahi tha Wahi tha Wahi tha

He was there even then

Kun fayakun Kun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Sadaq allahu ali ul azeem

Allah is the truth, the magnificence and the nature

Sadaqa-Rosooluh-ul-Nabi-ul-Kareem

The Prophet is generous, his messenger speaks the truth

SalAllah hu alayhi wasallam

May there be peace and blessing on him

SalAllah hu alayhi wasallam

May there be peace and blessing on him

Ho mujh pe karam sarkar tera

It would be Your generosity on me, My Lord

Araj tujhe kar de mujhe mujhse hi riha

I have a request, please release me from myself(my ego, my pride and my bonds)

Ab mujhko bhi ho deedar mera

I wish to meet the true self of mine

Kar de mujhe mujh se hi riha

Please release me from myself

Mujh se hi rihaaa...

Release me from myself

Mann ke mere ye bharam... Kachche mere ye karam

These unreal thoughts in my mind, These works of mine which are not concrete

Leke chale hain kahaan main to jaanu hi na

Where do they all take me, I have no idea

Tu hai mujh mein samaaya kahaan leke mujhe aaya

You are inside me and You have brought me someplace

Main hoon tujh mein samaaya

I am inside of You

Tere peechhe chala aaya

I came here following You

Tera hi main ik saaya

I am one of Your shadows

Tune mujhko banaya

You have made me

Main to jag ko naa bhaya

I was disliked by the world

Tune gale se lagaya

Only You have embraced me

Haq tu hi hai khudaya

You are the only just

Sach tu hi hai khudaya

It's true You are the only truth

Aaa...

Kun fayakun Kun fayakun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Fayakun fayakun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Kun fayakun Kun fayakun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Fayakun fayakun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Jab kahin pe kuch nahi bhi nahi tha

When there was nothing nowhere to be found

Wahi tha Wahi tha Wahi tha Wahi tha

He was there even then

Jab kahin pe kuch nahi bhi nahi tha

When there was nothing nowhere to be found

Wahi tha Wahi tha Wahi tha Wahi tha

He was there even then

Kun fayakun Kun fayakun

He commands and it is as he wants

Sadaq allahu ali ul azeem

Allah is the truth, the magnificence and the nature

Sadaqa-Rosooluh-ul-Nabi-ul-Kareem

The Prophet is generous, his messenger speaks the truth

SalAllah hu alayhi wasallam

May there be peace and blessing on him

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I was going to do watercolour and I did three people that are in my family but two of them passed away but I still remember them off the stories that my family has been told me these kind of story although I haven’t seen the people that I’ve drawn I can still feel there emotions . I have done it with regular paper what’s the time but I switched it with watercolour paper The texture is different with regular paper.

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I am going to do boteh  but I am focusing on that paidley pattern I was going to do it on fabric that I am gonna do it bye designing it Digitali i’m gonna do both.

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This is in my house and it is 99 names of Allha. It is special, a sacred object that needs to be on display.  There is a fashion website called Sheen, they were using this design as rugs and prayer mats, which is considered disrespectful, as people would kneel or walk on the rug. This is considered controversial. When you pray, you have to wash your face 3 and ears 3 times, same as the nose the mouth and the feet as well to pray.  Fully covered, head scarf.   In the book of God, Quran, the book of all the profits.  You have to wash your hands to touch it.

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Idea to combine family portraits with paisley / Islamic geometric designs as discussed in my 1:1 with tutor. 

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Idea to combine family portraits with paisley / Islamic geometric designs as discussed in my 1:1 with tutor. 

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Gotta, is solvent-based its a thick material made from latex. It is extract from Indonesian rubber trees or gutta percha. This tree is a genus palaquium it is one of 120 species of trees in the family. They’re in India across Southeast Asia malesia,papuasia. Indonesia is one of the largest producers and exporters of natural rubber. It is called gutters-percha because it is planted by Malay.  Getah translates as latex, percha or perca which is an older name for Sumatra.polyisoprene It is 10% of all flowering plants call (angiosperms). This tree needs Constant High temperature(26-32) and wet environment. That’s why they are  commonly found in Southeast Asia. It’s chemical name is(C5H8) and is made of natural rubber. In Britain this plant was imported (1,500,000kg). It can be used by art this technique is called Silk-painting, it is thick consistency and it creates a barrier because of this gummy’s substance, Gutta comes in clear, black, gold metallic, silver metallic and several colors.

silk shawl, it comes in a cocoon off the silk worm,Also other insects produce silk. This domestic silk moth(bombyx mori) this moth belongs in Bombycidae family. This insect is economically important,Producing silk.

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Monoprinting is the type of art that you make series of unique patterns And printmaking as well, although there are many types of monotype. The ink that we use is water-based ink and they are a whole range of colours. Water-based are made up of water that carries pigment. The ink is solvent for Caren colour. Solvent has been made by thick paint such as oil paints and enamel paint. Enamel painting is hairdryers to hard and it is glossy, finish that is mainly used by coating surfaces that are outdoors or hardware.enamel paint is a certain temperature, below 48F or above room temperature, or 72F, it shouldn’t be confused by decorated objects. The one that I am using is mono printing and Mono printing is a multiple patterns and variation on a series however I’ve created two artwork that are monotype that are not repeated patterns I have done it with both of the painting is water-based painting.I’m very comfortable doing monotypes because it allows me to have freedom of doing art.

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Are used this with pencil. As you can see are used all the shades and shadow I tried to do an accurate picture of my mum. This artist who goes by Rajacenna She is a social media artist and she has done realistic Artist but I have tried to keep my original sketch that I have done in the past. I tried to keep the eyes big , bold and anime type

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He was born September 1955 London, he married Emma Biggs he collaborated with artwork.He is a British art critic,Artist,writer,Broadcaster. He did  Tv,  and this channel is called  BBC arts.This program is about abstract art. This art can be heavy or light art. for him it’s natural and he is constantly doing The art. Abstract art has been around hundred years. He collaborated with Emma Biggs.collongs did the artwork and Biggs generated the colour palette. He talk about some  abstract art  being accident. The painting looks like a woman painting asking the ghost what to do next with the painting

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planning sheet

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Mum and Dad.  Digital and mono prints window mounted 

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Mum and Dad.  Digital and mono prints window mounted 

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The Kaaba is the most sacred place. What is the most important mosque.Allah said that enjoy this life that allah has been given to you all the deeds and all the sins will be counted after the day of judgement.

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As you could see I made to mood board. I made nontraditional but the bottom is Asian culture I have made it differently than the other fashion designs that they have done however some of the fashion designers are very similar to mine this mood board is leaning towards 1500s and 1600s. Corsets are known to be tight around the waist but in my culture we are known to be light and open with our clothes.

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You can see that I made all of these outfits my culture but I have changed it. I’ve got inspired bye Jodhee Akbar. This film has inspired me because their clothes are very traditional and I like how unique it is I made these patterns just for changing the outfit patterns.

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These three people are very important for my life because they have inspired me two go after my dream and aspirations.

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Joining clay

First we kneaded the clay out of the dough. Then we made a shape of our desire. We cut the shape out using kneading tools. Wooden tools, Wooden rib, Loop and Riben tool, sponge, metal scraper and wire clay cutter are the tools we are not using. To join the clay, we score to join it up, once we join it then put a slip. This will make it smoother like cement in order to join it up with bricks. If it’s not joined up, you can put more clay to shape it. There are many clays Called Eartheware, Porcelain, stoneware, Ball Clay. Score,Slip,Stick,Smooth.

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Bandsaw It is a straight line machine that cuts your wood. Scroll saw, it has a protective layer and sharp blade and it curves edges.Disc sander. We sand it down because the wood has rough edges if the wood has curvy edges we stand it manually.

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I used different textures to create my printing block.  I used different papers for these collagraph prints, satin paper which is shiny, cartridge paper and photographic paper, each paper has a slightly different result, I think I prefer the satin shiny paper.