brocade vs fabric

brocade and fabric both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
brocade	Yes	No	Yes	No
fabric	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fabric is a hypernym of brocade; that is, fabric is a word with a broader meaning than brocade:

brocade: thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern
fabric: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of brocade include cloth, material, textile.

brocade (noun)	fabric (noun)
thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
	the underlying structure

brocade (verb)	fabric (verb)
weave a design into (textiles)