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While grosgrain fabric is generally black, it can be many different colors, and grosgrain ribbon comes in a large variety of colors and patterns. Grosgrain is commonly used to refer to a heavy, stiff ribbon of silk or nylon woven via taffeta weave using a heavy weft which results in distinct transverse ribs.rosgrain is both a direct French loan word and a corruption of and folk adaptation of the French word grogram. Grogram, originally gros gram (appeared in literature in 1562), is defined as a coarse, loosely woven fabric of silk, silk and mohair, or silk and wool.
Since 1944, the Medal of Honor has been attached to a light blue colored moirÃ© silk Neck ribbon that is 13â16 in (30 mm) in width and 213â4 in (550 mm) in length. The center of the ribbon displays thirteen white stars in the form of three chevron.