Glossary of Design Terms by Barnett Home Decor

Check or Checkers

Check or Checkers

The Check Pattern, also known as a checkered pattern, or checkers, is a pattern of squares, or intersecting lines which form squares. Checks are popular in farmhouse, traditional, country, and mid-...

Cotton Duck

Cotton Duck

Cotton Duck is a plain woven cotton fabric available in a wide variety of weights and colors, and is popular for being affordable, durable and easy to clean.

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.

Damask

Damask

Damask is a Jacquard woven fabric with one warp thread and one weft yarn. The pattern is typically worked in a single color with the shiny fibers, or satin weave, creating the face of the pattern, ...

Chenille

Chenille

Chenille can refer to a yarn with a soft fuzzy texture, items knitted entirely from such yarns, or items incorporating tufts of such yarn for decoration. Chenille can be made from cotton, wool, sil...

Candy Stripe

Candy Stripe

Candy Stripe are vertical, evenly-sized 1/8-inch stripes of a bright color on a white background.