To prevent a change in thickness of a cloth or a change in the number of rushes due to absence or reduction of creases or waviness of the cloth and lowering of density of the rushes from the conventional density in a rush woven cloth from causing problems in practical use about a feeling of use or expression power of a block check pattern, and to provide the rush woven cloth usable as not only a Tatami facing but also a rush mat or a Tatami cover unfixed to a floor.

The rush woven cloth is woven into the block check pattern with a gradation applied thereto by utilizing a natural hue of undyed rushes. The rush woven cloth is woven into the block check pattern with the gradation applied thereto utilizing the natural hue of the undyed rushes under conditions that a required number of warp yarns are delivered under uniform tension and length. The density of the rushes 1 beaten in the direction of the warp yarns 2 is 210-230 yarns/10 cm. The number of the warp yarns 2 used is 158 yarns/88 cm.