Oxford (cloth)

Oxford is a type of woven dress shirt fabric, employed to make a particular casual-to-formal cloth in Oxford shirts.

Structure

The Oxford weave has a basketweave structure and a lustrous aspect^[1] making it a popular fabric for a dress shirt.^[2]

Varieties

Varieties in the cloth are the plain Oxford, the Pinpoint Oxford and the more formal Royal Oxford. While these first two are more often paired with casual shirt designs like a button-down collar, the third type is a more versatile weave that can be paired with either business or sporty dress codes.

References

↑ "Kohls.com Glossary of Fabric & Fashion Terms". Retrieved 2008-08-02.
↑ "Dress Shirt Fabric". Retrieved 2008-08-02.

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

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