Vignette

[Stevenloan]

Hi everybody! What do you call the vignette or the pattern on the following bags?

http://thocammissthuy.com/

https://www.sendo.vn/shop/tandtshop/tui ... 6171.html/

Thanks a lot!

StevenLoan

[trolley]

Steve, I am not sure what those particular patterns are called. I am surprised that they may be called "vignettes", though.

[Erik_Kowal]

I would simply call them decorative abstract patterns.

They are quite diverse in form, so a more detailed description is not possible.

[tony h]

I am with Trolley and Erik on this one. I will add that if being described in a shop in the UK they would probably be described as "ethnic" or (incorrectly) as Aztec. Aztec is conceived as being anything that vaguely follows a distinctive geometric pattern.

As a phrase, I might use: "brightly coloured, almost heraldic, horizontal bands of repeating geometric patterns".

[Stevenloan]

trolley, Erik and tony h : Thank you all so so much for your answers. I really appreciate it.

[Bobinwales]

Can I make a suggestion Stevem? When you ask these quite reasonable questions that you tell us what they are called where you come from, with an appropriate clue as to the English version.