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Textile Pattern Recognition
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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.
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.
Tweed
A rough, woolen fabric, typically of mixed flecked colors, originally produced in Scotland.
Chevron
A pattern with inverted 'V' shapes, creating a zigzag pattern that is symmetrical and often used in home decor and fashion.
Houndstooth
A duotone textile pattern characterized by broken checks or abstract four-pointed shapes, often in black and white.
Brocade
A class of richly decorative shuttle-woven fabrics, often made in colored silks and with or without gold and silver threads.
Paisley
A droplet-shaped vegetable motif of Persian origin, often used in ties and shawls and associated with bohemian style.
Toile
A pattern depicting a complex scene, often of a pastoral theme or romantic vignettes on light-colored backgrounds, common in upholstery and wallpaper.
Seersucker
A thin, puckered, all-cotton fabric commonly striped or checkered, used for summer clothing.
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.
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.
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.
Plaid
A pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colors, originating from tartan used in kilts.
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.
Argyle
A pattern of diamond-shaped areas on a solid background, often overlapping, used especially for socks and sweaters.
Madras
A lightweight cotton fabric with typically patterned texture and plaid design, used chiefly for summer clothing such as pants, shorts, dresses, and jackets.
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.
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'.
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.
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.
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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