Taupe and blue-grey plaid with beige crossings and a softly heathered weave

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Art of the Loom

Oban Plaid Atlantic Breeze

Oban Plaid Atlantic Breeze is a quietly cool plaid, combining a taupe ground with blue-grey lines and warm beige crossings. The close-up reveals a softly textured, heathered surface rather than a flat printed check.

taupe blue-grey plaid plain medium smart upholstery

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About this fabric

The woven plaid balances broad blue-grey bands with finer dark lines, creating a layered check that feels measured rather than high-contrast. Taupe and beige threads soften the cooler blue-grey, while the visible weave gives the surface gentle tonal variation across the swatch. No performance features are noted for this listing.

How to use it

Use this muted taupe and blue-grey colourway on a reading chair, bench or sofa where its tailored check can sit alongside warm timber, stone and softly aged neutrals. Keep surrounding fabrics understated to let the layered plaid remain the defining pattern.

The muted taupe ground and cool blue-grey checks bring quietly tailored character to upholstered seating.

Art of the Loom Wool Plaid Vol 3 Fabric

Specification

Composition: 100% Wool
Vertical repeat: 14.0cm
Horizontal repeat: 14.0cm
Rub test (Martindale): 28,000 rubs
Fire document: Wool Plaid.pdf
Suitable end use: Curtains & General Domestic Upholstery
Width (cm): 145cm

Specification as published by Art of the Loom. We will confirm the current details with them before you order.

Made up by us

Every metre we order is cut, sewn and fitted in our own Heybridge workshop, with Simon over every stage. Reupholstery, bespoke pieces, curtains, blinds and headboards.

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Oban Plaid Atlantic Breeze is a quiet cloth, so it carries a pattern beside it: one of these on the curtains and this on the chair. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.

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Paint that goes with it

Two ways to take the room. Both colours are from houses we hold, so a pot can come off the same order as the cloth. Screens shift colour, so treat these as a direction and bring the cloth to the shelf before you buy the paint.

To sit quietly behind it

Silt

Little Greene · #857e6c

To stand against it

Matterhorn

Sanderson · #f0ece0