Glossary of Design Terms by Barnett Home Decor

Buffalo Check Plaid

Buffalo Check Plaid

Buffalo Check is defined as a plaid with large blocks formed by the intersection of two different color yarns, typically red and black. Related patterns include checkered, plaid, and gingham...

Buffalo Check Plaid

Buffalo Check is defined as a plaid with large blocks formed by the intersection of two different color yarns, typically red and black. Related patterns include checkered, plaid, and gingham...

Dupioni Silk

Dupioni Silk

Dupioni (also Douppioni or Dupion) is a woven silk fabric with a textured finish from the crossing of the smoother warp threads with coarser weft threads.

Dupioni Silk

Dupioni (also Douppioni or Dupion) is a woven silk fabric with a textured finish from the crossing of the smoother warp threads with coarser weft threads.

Gingham Check

Gingham Check

Gingham Check is a check pattern of equal width rows and columns of alternating colors in a weave that creates a checked pattern with the illusion of a combined third...

Gingham Check

Gingham Check is a check pattern of equal width rows and columns of alternating colors in a weave that creates a checked pattern with the illusion of a combined third...

Nautical

Nautical is anything pertaining to ships or shipping. As a decor theme, it focuses on nautical motifs and a color scheme of navy blue, red, and yellow. Nautical themes are...

Nautical

Nautical is anything pertaining to ships or shipping. As a decor theme, it focuses on nautical motifs and a color scheme of navy blue, red, and yellow. Nautical themes are...

Americana

Americana

Americana decor focuses on antique and handmade items such as quilts, embroidery, rough-hewn woodwork, and primitive furniture. Related styles include farmhouse, country, rustic, primitive, colonial, and federal.

Americana

Americana decor focuses on antique and handmade items such as quilts, embroidery, rough-hewn woodwork, and primitive furniture. Related styles include farmhouse, country, rustic, primitive, colonial, and federal.

Achromatic Color Scheme

Achromatic Color Scheme

Achromatic colors schemes use black, white, grey, and other neutral colors in combinations.

Achromatic Color Scheme

Achromatic colors schemes use black, white, grey, and other neutral colors in combinations.

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