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All About Checks and Plaids

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Find you seventeen different names of check and plaids

Image	1.Argyle checks This is an allover pattern of diamonds (Lozenges). Most of the time the diamond motifs will be overlapping. It is an often-seen pattern in men’s sweaters and socks.types of checkered pattern
Image	2. Buffalo checks This is an all-over check pattern with big squares formed by the intersection of two different colored yarns, usually red and black. It is popular in home furnishing and for making casual shirts. checkered patterns
Image	3. Checkerboard pattern This is the general term for equal-sized checks like you see in a checkerboard gameboard checks pattern
Image	4. Dog’s tooth/ Hound’s tooth This is a pattern formed by broken or uneven checks that resemble a dog’s tooth ( also 4 pointed stars). Usually seen in suiting fabrics.
Image	5.Dupplin checks This is a pattern formed by a combination of simple checks (usually dog’s tooth checks) and windowpane checks, forming a check pattern within a check pattern.
Image	6 Gingham Check Gingham Check has an allover pattern of checks in two or more small similar sized squares – one color is always white. You will find this check used mostly in table linen – table cloth, table napkin, etc. kinds of check patterns
Image	7.Glen Check This pattern is a combination of large and small checks ( usually hound’s tooth checks ) creating a pattern of irregular checks. This pattern is mostly seen in suiting fabrics -usually with dark and light stripes alternating with dark and light stripes in a subtle checkered pattern. ( Prince of Wales check) check patterns
Image	8.Graph Check This check pattern has evenly shaped checks formed by thin bands of a single color on a white background looking just like a graph paper types of checkered patterns
Image	9.Madras check This is a pattern with uneven checks formed by bands of colors ( of varying thickness ) crossing each other ( not evenly spaced) in vibrant colors. It is essentially a shirting pattern kinds of checks
Image	10.Mini Check Small check pattern sized between the pin check and the Gingham check kinds of check patterns
Image	11.Pin check This check pattern has pin-sized stripes that are one or two yarns thick, crossing each other very closely forming small checks which look like dots from a distance. types of checkered patterns
Image	12.Plaid checks This pattern has colorful stripes crisscrossing each other, similar to Madras checks but in more muted colors. In contrast to Madras checks, you will find that the checks are more symmetrically placed. It is also called Tartan; Know more about the characteristics of this pattern in this post “What is Plaid? Plaid vs Chek vs Tartan”
Image	13.Shepherd’s Check This is very similar to gingham checks but set against a twill background. It is usually a black and white pattern.
Image	14.Tattersall checks This is a check pattern with regularly spaced checks (very similar to windowpane but smaller) made on a white background by thin colored bands. The bands are usually of two colors resulting in a multidimensional effect. chequered pattern
Image	15. Glen club checks This is a pattern of double checks. In this pattern, alternating bands in two or more colors intersect on a light background creating checks. The colors traditionally used are black, red-brown, pine green check pattern
Image	16 Ichimatsu checks This is a pattern in which two squares of colors are used alternately to form the checks. It is essentially the same as a chequerboard pattern, the difference is that this pattern may have other designs inside the checks. This is a very popular Japanese pattern used for Kimonos; The Kabuki actor Sanokawa Ichimatsu used this design for his Hakama on stage, thus this pattern got its name.
	17 Windowpane Check This check pattern makes the fabric resemble window panes with its thin bands of light-colored bands forming checks on a contrasting solid colored background. The windowpane checks are widely spaced windowpane check pattern

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