The herringbone pattern is an arrangement of rectangles used for floor tilings and road pavement.
The blocks can be rectangles or parallelograms. The block edge length ratios are usually 2:1, and sometimes 3:1, but need not be even ratios.
The herringbone pattern has a symmetry of wallpaper group pgg, as long as the blocks are not of different color (i.e., considering the borders alone).
| Herringbone fabric | Egyptian mats with herringbone pattern with two different colors | Salzburg, Austria pavement | Budapest, Hungary pavement | |
As a geometric tessellation, the herringbone pattern is topologically identical to the regular hexagonal tiling.