gingham vs cloth

gingham and cloth both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gingham	Yes	No	No	No
cloth	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cloth is a hypernym of gingham; that is, cloth is a word with a broader meaning than gingham:

gingham: a clothing fabric in a plaid weave
cloth: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of gingham include fabric, material, textile.

gingham (noun)	cloth (noun)
a clothing fabric in a plaid weave	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers