What Colour Is Houndstooth

A black and white houndstooth sofa surrounded with accents of red or yellow exudes sophistication. Orange or teal accessories excite a pair of gray or brown houndstooth chairs to create urban chic. A small houndstooth pattern lends a polished elegance, while a large pattern presents a more casual one.

Is houndstooth only black and white?

Houndstooth, hounds tooth check or hound’s tooth (and similar spellings), also known as dogstooth, dogtooth, dog’s tooth, pied-de-poule (“hen’s foot”) in French, and qianniaoge (“thousand-bird pattern”) in Chinese, is a duotone textile pattern characterized by broken checks or abstract four-pointed shapes, often in …

Why do they call it houndstooth?

By definition: Houndstooth is a two-toned textile pattern, Scottish by origin, characterized by broken checks, and most often designed in black and white. The print does in fact have something to do with its canine-sounding name — which was inspired by the uneven shape of a hound dog’s teeth.