The Paisley Shawl: And the Men Who Produced it (Paisley Collection S.)

The Epoch of the Shawl Trade in Paisley writes the author of this interesting volume is now rounded off. Like a flower it came up blossomed and decayed. Even thus in Paisley does the poetic imagination weave garlands of blooming thoughts round textile fabrics. The book however is description and history not an effusion of creative art. The shawls are now rarities sought for by collectors. To such persons this volume must prove uncommonly valuable as explaining both by pictures and by written descriptions the technical excellences of garments that must always rank among the most wonderful productions of the world-old craft of the weaver . - The Scotsman on publication in 1904.