Graeme Base

I have pets, but they're the really ordinary sort - yellow Labrador, tabby cat, white rabbit, a few goldfish - that kind of stuff. Nothing very... extravagant or unusual or exotic, but I find, in terms of inspiration, Mother Nature is just it.

English Artist

Ned Beauman

I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.

British Novelist

Ashley Madekwe

My ginger tabby cat Oscar - he's got his own passport - he comes everywhere with me.

English Actress

Refers specifically to cats with striped patterns, not just any pet.

Animal Description

Stripes on tabbies can be spirals, whorls, or spots along with stripes.

Pattern Variety

'Tabby' describes a cat's coat pattern, not its breed or species.

Not a Breed

Used to express the multi-toned pattern, applicable to more than just fur.

Visual Description

Tabby can mean a mix of lines and other shapes, depending on context.

Not Always Stripes

The tabby pattern is not exclusive to pets; it's also found in wild cats.

Frequency in Nature

Refers to a textile technique, not just any fabric with a similar look.

Fabric Specific

This term is old-fashioned and rarely used in modern fashion descriptions.

Historical Context

 that all they had to breed with were domestic cats they had such a weak population so over the last hundred years what you've seen with the wildcats in scotland is wildcats becoming more and more tabby cat your home cat basically the point is virtually none left and that's why they have now been declared as function extinct in the uk

Rescuing the UK's Rarest...

 It's where slaves were stored. Imagine this hallowed ground. So in this new design, the ground will erupt, and it will talk about this tension that sits below. The columns and the ground is made of tabby shales scooped up from the Atlantic,

How urban spaces can...

 tabby says tiffany blue hmm the same blue as the sky on a winter's morning no you know what this the blue of a sky of the sky on a winter's morning in a