Warm clay-brown plain woven fabric swatch with fine textured weave

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Ashley Wilde

Bronte Clay

Name: Bronte Clay
Brand: Ashley Wilde
SKU: BRONTE

Bronte Clay is a quietly textured plain in a warm clay-brown tone with a soft, natural-looking weave. Its muted depth gives the surface an easy, relaxed character rather than a sharp or glossy finish.

warm clay brown plain none relaxed drapery

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About this fabric

This colourway reads as a subdued clay brown with a slightly earthy, beige-brown cast, and the fine cross-woven texture is visible across the surface. The fabric is 68% Recycled Polyester and 32% Polyester, with a width of 140cm and a substantial 320gsm / 448g per linear metre. It is specified for drapes only, which suits the fluid, lightly structured look shown here. With no horizontal pattern repeat and a plain style, Bronte Clay offers a calm, uninterrupted expanse of colour that feels warm without becoming heavy.

How to use it

Use Bronte Clay for tailored curtains, Roman blinds, or simple full-length drapes where the warm brown tone can soften pale walls and stone, oak, or linen furnishings. It works especially well in rooms that want a grounded neutral with a little more warmth than grey.

A softly grounded plain that brings warmth to simple curtains and layered neutrals.

Ashley Wilde Darwin Collection Fabric

Specification

Composition: 68% Recycled Polyester, 32% Polyester
Country of origin: India
Style: Plains
Suitable for: Drapes Only
Weight: 320 gsm
Weight (per linear metre): 448 g/m
Width: 140 cm

Specification as published by Ashley Wilde. 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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Bronte Clay 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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To sit quietly behind it

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To stand against it

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