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Houndstooth, herringbone, tartan, paisley — names of the repeating patterns on fabric and backgrounds. — 24 entries
Houndstooth하운드투스
A broken check of jagged, four-pointed "teeth" interlocking in black and white — born in Scottish shepherds' woven tweed.
Herringbone헤링본
Named for its resemblance to a herring's skeleton — rows of V-shaped weave, each row offset just enough to interlock with the next.
Chevron셰브론
A symmetric zigzag stripe whose peaks and troughs line up at the same point row after row — the name comes from a triangular charge in heraldry.
Gingham깅엄
A check woven from one colour and white crossing at right angles, where the overlaps blend into a naturally darker third tone.
Tartan (plaid)타탄 (플레이드)
A grid woven from the same sequence of coloured stripes in both directions, so the crossings mix new colours and diagonal lines of their own.
Argyle아가일
Interlocking colour diamonds crossed by thin diagonal overstitch lines — named for the Argyll region of Scotland.
Polka dot폴카 도트
Evenly sized circles staggered half a step between rows — named after the polka dance craze that swept 1880s Europe and America.
Pinstripe핀스트라이프
A stripe as fine as a pin — one of the simplest repeating patterns there is.
Breton stripe브르통 스트라이프
Bold navy (or red) horizontal bands on white — born as French naval uniform, adopted into high fashion by Chanel.
Checkerboard체커보드
Two colours alternating in a square grid — the simplest possible two-colour tessellation.
Paisley페이즐리
A curling teardrop motif — a Persian and Indian design (boteh) that entered the West under the name of a Scottish mill town.
Damask다마스크
A symmetrical floral motif woven from a single colour thread, made visible purely by how light bounces off the weave direction.
Toile (toile de Jouy)투알 (투알 드 주이)
A pictorial print of pastoral scenes in a single ink colour, repeated at a large scale — named after the French village where it was perfected.
Ikat이카트
A weaving technique where yarn is tie-dyed before weaving, leaving the pattern's signature soft, slightly bled edges.
Seigaiha (blue ocean waves)청해파 (세이가이하)
Nested concentric fan arcs staggered row to row so they overlap like scales of water — the name is Japanese, but the motif traces back to ancient Persia.
Asanoha (hemp leaf)아사노하 (삼베무늬)
A Japanese geometric pattern of interlocking six-pointed stars built from straight lines on a hexagonal grid — named for its resemblance to a hemp leaf.
Shippō (seven treasures)칠보무늬 (시포)
Same-sized circles overlapping in a grid, where each overlap naturally forms a four-pointed lens shape.
Greek key (meander)그리스 키 문양 (미앤더)
A single continuous line folding at right angles, never crossing itself — named after the winding Maeander river in present-day Turkey.
Quatrefoil콰트르포일 (사엽무늬)
Four overlapping circular lobes arranged symmetrically around a centre, reading as a four-leaf clover — born in Gothic cathedral window tracery.
Guilloché길로셰
A dense weave of curved lines engraved by precisely combining rotational and oscillating motion — the mathematical precision made it the standard for currency and security printing.
Terrazzo테라조
Not a regular grid at all — irregularly scattered chips of varying size and colour, ground smooth into a flat surface.
Camouflage카무플라주
Irregular, interlocking blotches deliberately overlapped to break up an outline rather than to look decorative.
Isometric cubes아이소메트릭 큐브 패턴
Three flat rhombi shaded in three tones that the eye reads as a stack of 3D cubes — a pure shading illusion.
Hexagon tiling육각형 타일링
One of only three regular polygons that tile a plane with no gaps or overlaps — and there's a proven mathematical reason bees build with this one.