In this paper, a novel method based on logical analysis is proposed to recognize the layout of color yarns of yarn-dyed fabric from the color pattern. The mathematic expressions of the color pattern and the layout of color yarns are introduced first, and then the fitness of the layout of color yarns to the color pattern is defined by the relation between them. The principle of the proposed recognition method begins with the assumption of the color of the first warp yarn in the color pattern. The whole algorithm procedure is then analyzed in detail with an actual sample color pattern. Experiments on some color patterns recognized from actual yarn-dyed fabrics, some color patterns simulated manually and some color patterns including error color information of floats prove that the method proposed in this paper is effective for detecting the layout of color yarns from the color pattern of yarn-dyed fabric and it has fault-tolerance ability in some degree. The research in the paper can be used to construct the whole recognition system of the parameters of yarn-dyed fabric.