Dobby (cloth)

Dobby is a woven fabric produced on the dobby loom, characterised by small geometric patterns and extra texture in the cloth.^[1] The warp and weft threads may be the same colour or different. Satin threads are particularly effective in this kind of weave as their texture will highlight the pattern.^[2]

Polo shirts are usually made with dobby.^[1] piqué fabrics are a type of dobby construction.

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Weaving Weaves Basketweave Charvet Coverlet Dobby Double weave Even-weave Lampas Oxford Pile weave Piqué Plain weave Satin weave Shot Twill Gabardine Components Textiles Warp Weft Yarn Tools and techniques Barber-Colman knotter Beamer Chilkat weaving Fingerweaving Flying shuttle Heald (Heddle) Ikat Inkle weaving Jacquard weaving Kasuri Loom Navajo weaving Pibiones Reed Salish weaving Shed Shuttle Sizing Sizing machine Tablet weaving Tāniko Tapestry Temple Types of looms Air jet loom Dobby loom Jacquard loom Hattersley loom Horrocks loom Lancashire loom Northrop loom Power loom Rapier loom Roberts Loom Tapestry loom Warp weighted loom Water jet loom Weavers Acesas Anni Albers Ada Dietz Micheline Beauchemin Thomas Ferguson & Co Ltd Dorothy Liebes Ethel Mairet Pamphile John Rylands Brigitta Scherzenfeldt Clara Sherman Gunta Stölzl Judocus de Vos Employment practices More looms Kissing the shuttle Piece-rate list Mills Bancroft Mill Queen Street Mill