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Houndstooth
A duotone textile pattern characterized by broken checks or abstract four-pointed shapes, often in black and white.
Paisley
A droplet-shaped vegetable motif of Persian origin, often used in ties and shawls and associated with bohemian style.
Argyle
A pattern of diamond-shaped areas on a solid background, often overlapping, used especially for socks and sweaters.
Plaid
A pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colors, originating from tartan used in kilts.
Chevron
A pattern with inverted 'V' shapes, creating a zigzag pattern that is symmetrical and often used in home decor and fashion.
Pin Dot
A pattern resembling a pinpoint or small dot that is regularly spaced and often used in formal wear like dress shirts and ties.
Toile
A pattern depicting a complex scene, often of a pastoral theme or romantic vignettes on light-colored backgrounds, common in upholstery and wallpaper.
Brocade
A class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in colored silks and with or without gold and silver threads.
Chambray
A plain weave fabric with a colored yarn in the warp and a white yarn in the weft, often used for shirts and dresses.
Seersucker
A thin, puckered, all-cotton fabric commonly striped or checkered, used for summer clothing.
Gingham
A medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric made from dyed cotton or cotton-blend yarn, featuring checked patterns of white and a bold color.
Damask
A reversible figured fabric of silk, wool, linen, cotton, or synthetic fibers, with a pattern formed by weaving.
Ikat
A dyeing technique used to create patterned textiles that employs a resist dyeing process on the yarns prior to dyeing and weaving the fabric.
Tweed
A rough, woolen fabric, typically of mixed flecked colors, originally produced in Scotland.
Madras
A lightweight cotton fabric with typically patterned texture and plaid design, used chiefly for summer clothing such as pants, shorts, dresses, and jackets.
Herringbone
A pattern of columns of slanted parallel lines, which in each column line in the opposite direction to those in the next, resembling the bones of a fish such as a herring.
Jacquard
A highly textured fabric with patterns that are woven, rather than printed, into the fabric. Commonly used for brocades and damasks, named after the inventor of the first automated loom.
Batik
A technique of hand-dyeing fabrics by using wax as a dye repellent to cover areas that the dye will not penetrate, creating intricate designs, often found in Southeast Asia.
Fishnet
An open mesh fabric that resembles a fishing net, commonly used in stockings and body wear, as well as modern high fashion adaptations.
Flannel
A soft woven fabric, of various fineness, originally made from carded wool or worsted yarn but now often made from either wool, cotton, or synthetic fiber.
Calico
A plain-woven textile made from unbleached, and often not fully processed, cotton, also a term used for cotton fabric with a small, all-over printed pattern.
Eyelet
A lightweight fabric pierced by small holes finished with stitching and often laid out in flowerlike designs, frequently found in summer clothing and children's wear.
Corduroy
A textile composed of twisted fibers that, when woven, lie parallel to one another to form the cloth's distinct ribbed pattern, a 'cord'.
Velvet
A type of woven tufted fabric in which the cut threads are evenly distributed, with a short dense pile, giving it a distinctive soft feel, often used in evening wear and home decor.
Denim
A sturdy cotton warp-faced textile in which the weft passes under two or more warp threads, known for its use in jeans and jackets.
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