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Dobby
Material type	Woven fabric

Dobby, or dobbie, is a woven fabric produced on the dobby loom, characterised by small geometric patterns and extra texture in the cloth. 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.

Dobby usually features a simple, repeated geometric pattern.

Polo shirts are usually made with dobby. Piqué fabrics are a type of dobby construction.

References

1. ^ "Dobby Dress Shirts, Men's Dobby Shirts, Dobby Weave". ShirtsMyWay. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
2. "Textile Dictionary".
3. "Dobby vs. Jacquard: A Tale of Two Looms". Guilford of Maine. 17 December 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2020.

v t e Weaving
Weaves	Basketweave Charvet Coverlet Dobby Double weave Even-weave Gabardine Lampas Leno weave Oxford Pile weave Piqué Plain weave Satin Shot Swivel Twill
Components	Textiles Warp and weft Yarn
Tools and techniques	Barber-Colman knotter Beamer Braid Chilkat weaving Fingerweaving Flying shuttle Heddle Ikat Inkle weaving Kasuri Loom Navajo weaving Pibiones Reed Salish weaving Shed Shuttle Sizing Sizing machine Tablet weaving Talim Tāniko Tapestry Temple Wattle Wicker Resin
Types of looms	Air-jet loom Dandy loom Dobby loom Hattersley loom Horrocks loom Jacquard loom Lancashire loom Northrop loom Power loom Rapier loom Roberts loom Warp-weighted loom
Weavers	Acesas Anni Albers Otti Berger Micheline Beauchemin Johanna Brunsson Ada Dietz Thomas Ferguson & Co Ltd Elisabeth Forsell Dorothy Liebes Ethel Mairet Maria Elisabet Öberg Lilly Reich Margaretha Reichardt John Rylands Brigitta Scherzenfeldt Clara Sherman Gunta Stölzl Judocus de Vos Margaretha Zetterberg
Employment practices	More looms Kissing the shuttle Piece-rate list
Mills	Bancroft Shed Queen Street Mill

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