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. 1.Oxford (cloth), Wikipedia
  2. 2.Basketweave, Wikipedia

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