Stripes and Checks

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Stripes

Awning Stripes Bengal Stripes Dress Stripes ( pencil stripes )

Hairline Stripes Pin stripes

Lamppost Stripes

Classic stripes

Bretton stripes

Regimental stripes

Awning Stripes

This stripes pattern is the widest sized stripes, normally wider than one-fourth of an inch, on shirts the pattern usually consist of solid Stripes on white. Shirts that incorporate owning stripes tent to be mostly Casual and we would not recommend them for the workplace setting.

Bengal Stripes

The Bengal Stripes pattern derives its name from where it originated from Bengal India.

This pattern also consists of equal width solid color stripes alternating on white. This vertical stripes ,at approximately one-fourth of an inch, fall between awning stripes and candy stripes ( approximately one-eighth of an inch in width.

Dress shirts with Bengal stripes, when incorporating subtler colors, can be considered for business wear or even with a suit. They are great for casual wear as well.

Pencil Stripes

pencil stripes also commonly known as the dress stripes pattern. Thinner than candy stripes but wider than pinstripes – the width between stripes various from shirt to shirt and the stripes are almost always uneven. Pencil stripes pattern produced by lines that are as thick as once drawn by pencil.

Hairline StripesThis stripes pattern is approximately the width of hair that, being spaced very close to each other, gives the shirt a solid texture. This makes the shirt perfect for wearing at the office and also gives it that slight bit of casualness needed to be considered for evening wear outside of work.

Pin stripes

These are stripes which is printed lines hairy distance and mostly two orThree colors are used including the background.

Classic stripesStripes which are made with a wide combinations of thinner to Thickener lines arranged together.

Toothpaste stripes

This stripes can be multicolored and the distance can very but the width ofEach stripes should be ranging from 0.5-1.5 cms the width of the toothpaste.

Lamp Post stripesThe width starts from 3-5 CM.It can be compound stripes.The pattern has running lines of fixed width.

Bretton Stripes

This is horizontal bicolor stripes.

Regimental Stripes

A stripe pattern with colors originating from British regiments. Most oftenUsed in neck-wear.

Ticking Stripes

A strong, tightly woven fabric of cotton or linen used to make pillow and mattressCovering, which generally have consequent lines along with same bond lines inBetween.

Candy Stripes

Vertical and even stripes that are wider than pencil stripes but thinner than Bengal stripes.Candy stripes usually about 1/8 in width and are characterized by solid bold stripes on white.

Balance StripesA symmetrical layout, in which colored bends are arranged around a center.It repeats the same pattern on both the right and left of the dominant stripes.

Chevron StripesA traditional, woven or printed design of zigzag in a stripe layout, alsoherringbone.

Ombre stripesA woven fabric in which the color is graduated from light to dark andOften in to stripes of varying shades.

Fun Stripes

These stripes are combination of stripes, with playful arrangement ofdifferent widths.

Checks

Madras check Oxford check

Tartan check

Gingham check

Argyle check

Tattersall check

Buffalo check

Windowpane check

Mini check

Burberry check

ombre check

Graph check

District check

Madras Checks

• IT has got no more than 2 or 3 Vertical Stripes with Equal(Single) Horizontal Stripes.

• Colors used Blue, Red, Orange, etc.• Used for Lungis, Bermuda's and Coats.

Oxford check

• This is founded in dark colors with white combination.

• Here the Stripes Horizontally will be equal to the Stripes printed Vertically and at Equal Thickness placed at Equidistance

• Used in uniforms, mat, bed covers, Draperies etc.

TartansTartans comes from Scotland. Tartan is a pattern consisting of crisscrossed horizontal and vertical bends in multiple colors. Tartans originated in woven wool, but now they are made in many other materials.

Tartan is made with alternating bands of colored threads woven as both warp and weft at right angles to each other. The weft is woven in a simple twill, two over-two under the warp, advancing one thread each pass.

The resulting block of color repeat vertically and horizontally in a distinctive pattern of squares and lines known as a sett.

Gingham checksGingham is a medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric made from dyed cotton or cotton blend yarn.it is made of carded, medium or fine yarns, where the coloring is on the warp yarns and always along the grain ( weft ). Gingham has no right or wrong side with respect to color.

Argyle The argyle pattern is made of diamonds and lozenges. The most argyle layouts cantain layers of overlapping motifs, adding a sense of three-dimensionality, movement, and texture. Typically , there is an overlay of intercrossing diagonal lines on solid diamonds.

Tattersall check

Tattersall describes a check or plaid pattern woven into cloth. The pattern is composed of regularly-spaced thin, even vertical stripes , repeat horizontally in weft, there by forming squares.

Today Tattersall is a common pattern, often woven in cotton, particularly in flannel, used for shirts or waistcoats.

Buffalo checks

A bold check pattern with blocks of 2 to 3 contrasting colors oftenRed and black in a twill weave.

Windowpane checks

A widely spaced check pattern resembling panes in a window.Commonly used on suits, shirting's, accessories.

Mini checksSizes are somewhere between the pin check and the gingham check.It is usually consist of one color with white and often re-sambles the Gingham checks except that it’s a lot smaller. This pattern is more casualThan stripes, dressier than larger checks.

Burberry checks

It has defined pattern as 3 horizontal and 3+1 vertical line in check,It can have different size of checks.

Ombre checks

It gives the effect of ombre i.e. Shaded types of effect are created

Graph Check

Thin stripes running both warp and weft direction.

District checks

A check pattern that originate from uniforms identifying specific ScottishEstates. Famous district pattern inclide the glen checks, the shepherd,The dupplin, the benmore, the hounds tooth, princes of wales, the dogs toothand other.