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What would you call this fabric?

jrd617

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Micro houndsooth with giant check accents?

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The "giant check accents' are called windowpane check.
 

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Originally Posted by apropos
Quite sure saxony was once used to refer to a type of wool fibre (as in 'saxony wool'), not the weave.

+1 for two and two windowpane

I believe what you're thinking of is Saxxon wool, the high end wool offered at Brooks Brothers (they own rights to all the flocks that remain).
 

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Originally Posted by radicaldog
The "giant check accents' are called windowpane check.

I guess a houndstooth with "windowpane" accent colors?
 

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