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> it has the distinctive keffiyeh chequered pattern No, it has the equally distinctive and extremely popular and well-known "Houndstooth" pattern.
by ZoFreX 10y ago
> it has the distinctive keffiyeh chequered pattern
No, it has the equally distinctive and extremely popular and well-known "Houndstooth" pattern.
- Zuider 10y agoThe houndstooth pattern is a form of check. Wikipedia entry for Houndstooth pattern: "Houndstooth, hounds tooth check or hound's tooth (and similar spellings), also known as dogstooth, dogtooth, dog's tooth, or pied-de-poule, is a duotone textile pattern characterized by broken checks or abstract four-pointed shapes, often in black and white, although other colours are used." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houndstooth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houndstooth Wikipedia entry for Check - Use in fabrics: "Check-patterned fabrics display bands in two or more colours in woven cloth." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_%28pattern%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_%28pattern%29 Wikipedia, definition of keffiyeh: "Its distinctive standard woven checkered pattern may have originated in an ancient Mesopotamian representation of either fishing nets or ears of grain,[2] but the true origin of the pattern remains unknown." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keffiyeh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keffiyeh