Why is this pattern so ubiquitous and does it have a name?

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Paisley: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley_(design)
- Paisley paisley makes the girls go craizley
  
  Reminds me of a Lonely Island lyric:
  
  Dreamgirl you amaze me all dressed in paisley
  
  Love how not one but both eyes are lazy
  
  And a and a and a C Kettering Town FC!
The main shape is a Boteh.
- Yo i never knew and i wear bandanas all the time! Been calling it paisley generically for years, Thanks for the link
- This predates Paisley. Lemmy might be catching up to reddit faster than we thought
  
  What do you mean by that?
Paisley. It was really popular pattern in the late 1960s / early 1970s in curtains and furniture.
- And ties.
Paisley, which is a fractal.
- ^Paisley, which is a fractal.
- Are all paisleys fractals?
It's called paisley. Originated in Persia, but named after a town in Scotland.
It's paisley
I call it "paramecia". But that's just my personal way of calling it, without knowing the real original name !

Good to know though :)
- Most people I know name it after some kind of microorganism 😆
  
  Like a paramecium?

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