a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing

A coarse, open weave fabric which get is name from the plain weave fabric used for sacking in which hops were gathered.

A loosly woven coarse fabric of cotton or wool used in clothing. The fabric was originally used for bags by hop growers.

Variation on plain weave, where two or more ends and picks weave as one. Sometimes called basket weave.

A modification of a plain weave in which two or more ends or picks weave as one.

see Basket weave/Hopsack.

A modification of plain weave in which two or more ends and picks weave as one, or a fabric made in such a weave. The basic hopsack weaves may be modified in various ways, e.g., by introducing additional interlacing to give firmer cloth (stitched hopsack), or by arranging small square blocks of figures to form diagonal lines in the fabric (twilled hopsack).