Hairy: refers to fabrics with a lot of protruding fibers on the surface.

Hammered satin: a satin fabric with an allover surface texture that looks like hammered metal.

Handkerchief Linen: a fine lightweight plain weave fabric of linen or a linen blend. Used in blouses, dresses

Hard: describing fabrics with a firm, coarse hand.

Harlequin: a design motif dominated by diamond shapes or checks in 3 or more contrasting colors as in a harlequin costume.

Harris tweed: a woolen tweed fabric hand woven on the Outer Hebrides islands off the coast of Scotland. (Harris is one of these islands) Genuine Harris tweeds are certified by the Harris Tweed Association.

Heat transfer printed: a method of printing fabric by transferring a design from a paper to fabric by passing them together through heated rollers or a heated press. Also called Sublistatic printing or sublimation printing.

Heather: see Melange/Heather

Herringbone: a broken twill weave in which the twill line reverses regularly forming zig zag v's. Also called fishbone.

Hessian: see Burlap/Hessian.

High count: refers to fabrics woven with a relatively high thread count, resulting in a dense, tight fabric.

High twist: refers to yarn that are manufactured with a relatively high number of turns per inch . This may be done to increase the yarn strength or to give the fabric a crepey texture or hand.

High/low: 1. pile fabrics that have variation in pile height 2 a corduroy with wales of 2 or more different widths.

Holland/Shadecloth: a plain weave fabric similar to sheeting with a stiff sometimes glazed finish . Often of linen or cotton. Frequently used for shades.

Hologram: a three dimensional effect produced with a laser that changes with the angle of view and reflects light in a striking way . Often printed on reflective material.

Homespun: A plain weave fabric loosely woven with coarse uneven yarns that look as if they were spun by hand.

Honan: a high quality, plain weave pongee fabric made with wild silk from Henan in eastern China.

Honeycomb: a pique fabric with a waffle or cellular appearance. May be woven or knit.

Hopsack: see Basket weave/Hopsack.

Houndstooth: a pointed broken check design . Most commonly a woven produced with contrasting yarns in groups or multiples of 4, woven in a 2x2 twill. Sometimes called dogstooth.

Huckaback: a soft toweling fabric with short, loosely twisted filling floats to aid absorption, and a birdseye or honeycomb surface texture . It is sometimes embroidered.