A cotton jacquard towel. Jacquard: Fabric woven on the jacquard loom, which produces elaborate, figured weaves. Use: decorative fabrics such as tapestries, brocade and damask.

He tends to favor contemporary, organic jacquard patterns like Intuition by Zimmer + Rohde, a linen-cotton blend jacquard featuring sketch-like brush strokes arranged in crisscrossing angles.

Pima cotton, grown in Arizona, California and a few countries outside the U.S., is exceptionally soft and absorbent and is typically woven at 300 to 700 GSM.