Deep smoky taupe textile with subtle cloudy shading and a soft brushed-looking surface

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Alvar Bracken

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Alvar Bracken is a deep smoky taupe textile with a softly mottled, shadowed surface. The subdued brown-grey tone gives the cloth a quiet, grounded depth rather than a flat solid appearance.

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About this fabric

This 300 gsm fabric has a gently brushed-looking texture, with cloudy tonal variation visible across the swatch and no discernible motif. Its deep taupe colouring sits between warm brown and charcoal grey, allowing the subtle surface shading to catch the light without becoming glossy. The 144 cm usable width and 35 m standard length make it a practical mid-weight choice for coordinated upholstery and drapery. With a 0 cm vertical and 0 cm horizontal pattern repeat, it can be cut without pattern matching.

How to use it

Pair the smoky taupe tone with chalky neutrals, aged timber and softened black accents for a calm, tailored room. Its low-contrast texture also works well as a grounding fabric on a sofa, headboard or full-length curtain.

Use this deep smoky taupe as a grounding neutral on upholstery, curtains or layered soft furnishings.

Clarke & Clarke Alvar 2 Fabric

Specification

Usable width: 144 cm
Standard length: 35 m
Vertical repeat: 0 cm
Horizontal repeat: 0 cm
Weight: 300 gsm

Specification as published by Clarke & Clarke. 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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Alvar Bracken 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

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To stand against it

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