herringbone vs cloth

herringbone and cloth both are nouns.

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

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

herringbone: a twilled fabric with a herringbone pattern
cloth: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of herringbone include fabric, material, textile.

herringbone (noun)	cloth (noun)
a twilled fabric with a herringbone pattern	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way; it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery