The Clothing Seller’s Guide to Fabric Patterns and Prints - The Menswear Patterns

Don’t know your houndstooth from your herringbone? Your tartan from your toile? Your paisley from your plaid? This series of guides will help eBay sellers (and buyers) to identify all of the various fabric prints with descriptions and sample photographs.

Other Guides Include:

The Clothing Seller’s Guide to Fabric Patterns and Prints - Florals, Paisleys and Figurals

The Clothing Seller’s Guide to Fabric Patterns and Prints - Plaids and Checks

The Clothing Seller’s Guide to Fabric Patterns and Prints - Stripes

Houndstooth

Houndstooth is a woven design of continuous broken checks or four-pointed stars. The name comes from that fact that the pattern resembles the jagged back teeth of a dog.  It is sometimes also referred to as four-and-four check.

The second sample combines houndstooth with a windowpane plaid. 

Herringbone

Herringbone is a fabric woven in a pattern of rows of short, slanted parallel lines in which the direction of the slant alternates row by row. It is so named because of its resemblance to the bony spine of a fish. This pattern is also often used in masonry, parquet floors and embroidery.

Glen Plaid

A twill pattern of broken checks. Term originates from the Glen Urquhart, valley in Inverness-shire, Scotland.

Tweed

Tweed is coarse, rugged, often nubby woolen fabric made in any of various twill weaves and used chiefly for casual suits and coats.

Harris Tweed

Harris Tweed is loosely woven tweed made in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.