A yarn-dyed cotton fabric woven in stripes, checks, plaids, or solid colors.
[Dutch ginggang, from Malay.]
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ging·ham (gĭng'əm) ![]() |
[Dutch ginggang, from Malay.]
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a clothing fabric in a plaid weave
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Gingham is a medium-weight balanced plain-woven fabric made from dyed cotton or cotton-blend yarn.[1]
The name is Indonesian in origin, assimilated into Dutch. Gingham may be distinguished because it is almost always a checkered pattern. When originally imported (in the 17th century), it was a striped fabric, but from the mid 18th century, when it was being produced in the mills of Manchester, England, it had become woven into checked or plaid patterns (often blue and white).
Gingham is made of carded or combed, medium or fine yarns, where the coloring is on the warp yarns and always along the grain. Gingham has no right or wrong side regarding color.
Along with muslin, gingham is often used as a test fabric while designing fashion, or used for making an inexpensive fitting shell prior to making the clothing in fashion fabric.
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| Translations: Gingham |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - zefyr, bomuldspeter
Nederlands (Dutch)
gingang (soort stof)
Deutsch (German)
n. - Gingan (Baumwollstoff)
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ύφασμα) γιγάντιο, γκιγκάν
Italiano (Italian)
percallina a righe
Português (Portuguese)
n. - pano (m) de algodão (riscado)
Русский (Russian)
пестротканный гринсбон (ткань)
Español (Spanish)
n. - guinga, zaraza
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - gingham (slags rutigt el. randigt bomullstyg), paraply
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
条纹棉布
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 條紋棉布
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ギンガム, こうもり
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) نسيج قطني مخطط
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - גינגם (בד כותנה, מפוספס או משובץ בד"כ)
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