Plate No. 026fabric
Oxford Blue
Pink
Ecru
- First documented
- late 1800s
- Origin
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Fiber
- cotton
- Weave
- basket weave
- Family
- plain
Plate No. 026 · fabric
Oxford Cloth
Oxford cloth is a cotton shirting in a basket weave, classically with a dyed warp paired two-and-two against a white weft, which gives the cloth its fine checkerboard texture and softened color. It is heavier and more breathable than poplin and wears its wrinkles casually, which made it the cloth of the button-down collar and of American campus dress. Pinpoint and royal oxford are its finer-yarn, dressier siblings.
Named for
By trade tradition, one of four shirtings a Scottish mill named after universities: Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, and Harvard. Only Oxford survived.
Often confused with
Sources & References
- 1.Oxford (cloth), Wikipedia
- 2.Basketweave, Wikipedia