gingham vs fabric

gingham and fabric both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of gingham include cloth, material, textile.

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