Simon Houlding Upholstery
Close-up of cool steel-grey fabric with a dense, finely pebbled woven texture

Tap the swatch to see it full screen. Colours on a screen are a guide, not a match, so come and feel the real cloth.

Clarke & Clarke

Henley Steel

Henley FabricCCF0055-34

Henley Steel is a cool, deep grey woven fabric with a finely pebbled surface and subtle tonal variation. Its close texture catches the light without introducing a separate decorative motif.

cool steel greytexturednonesmartupholstery
Ask Simon about this fabric

You have used your previews for today. Send one to Simon and you can carry on.

Your board

0 fabrics

Part of the range we hold from Clarke & Clarke.

About this fabric

The steel-grey colour reads as distinctly cool, with charcoal and softer grey threads creating a lightly mottled, tactile appearance across the surface. The small-scale weave gives the cloth visual depth while retaining a calm, tailored look. At 368gsm, it has the substantial presence expected of a heavy furnishing textile and is well suited to upholstery. It is supplied at a 137cm usable width, with both vertical and horizontal pattern repeats recorded as 0cm.

How to use it

Use Henley Steel on a sofa, armchair or dining chair where its cool grey depth can anchor pale stone, white and blue-grey surroundings. The understated woven texture also works neatly with brushed metal, smoked timber and other restrained finishes.

A cool steel-grey woven texture that brings quiet depth to upholstered furniture and pairs easily with crisp neutrals or darker timber.

Clarke & ClarkeHenleyFabric

More from Henley

The same book, other colourways.

Close-up of dusty blush-pink fabric with a fine, softly mottled woven texture

Henley Peony

Henley
Close-up of blush pink Henley fabric with a softly irregular woven texture

Henley Petal

Henley
Close-up of saturated raspberry-pink fabric with a fine textured woven surface

Henley Raspberry

Henley
Soft blush-pink woven fabric with a fine nubby texture and subtle tonal flecks

Henley Rose

Henley
Pale sage woven textile with fine slub texture and softly variegated light-catching surface

Henley Sage

Henley
Close-up of warm sesame beige fabric with a flecked, tactile woven texture

Henley Sesame

Henley
Close-up of pale icy blue-grey fabric with a fine irregular woven texture

Henley Sky

Henley
Close-up of warm burnt-orange Henley fabric with a dense, nubby woven texture

Henley Spice

Henley
Warm stone-beige woven swatch with fine irregular flecks and tactile basket texture

Henley Stone

Henley
Warm straw beige upholstery weave with softly flecked, tactile texture

Henley Straw

Henley
Warm string-beige woven textile with a close, subtly pebbled surface

Henley String

Henley
Close view of warm sunflower-yellow woven texture with fine diagonal highlights

Henley Sunflower

Henley
See the whole collection

Pairs well with

Henley Steel 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.

Geometric grey fabric swatch with zigzag pattern and textured woven finish

Zeus Steel

Florentina
Steel grey wallpaper with tonal radial sunburst motifs and fine textured lines

Shore Wide Width Steel

Anthology 01
Cool steel-grey textile with white angular meander lines and softly translucent weave

Noa Steel

Colour 1 Fabrics
Steel-grey woven fabric with fine diagonal herringbone texture and subtle mottling

Chambray Steel

Chambray
Steel-grey geometric woven motifs on a pale ivory fabric swatch

Valerio Steel

Misti
Cool steel-grey fabric with repeating white-lined fan and faceted geometric motifs

Aikyo Steel

Japandi Fabrics
Cool steel-grey fabric with a tiny interlocking geometric weave and softly flecked texture

Metsa Steel

Metsa
Cool grey checked fabric with fine black and taupe stripes

COTTINGLEY Steel

Haworth
Cool steel-grey textile with a dense small-scale herringbone weave

Sloane Mews Steel

Sloane Square
Steel-grey woven stripe with narrow charcoal lines and a softly flecked texture

Sloane Stripe Steel

Sloane Square
Cool steel-grey woven textile with narrow vertical charcoal herringbone chevrons

Herringbone - Steel

Misc
Cool steel-grey fabric with closely spaced vertical ribs and a softly textured surface

Sculpt Steel

Sculpt

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

The Coal Drop

Coat Paints · #646a65

To stand against it

Grey Mist

Sanderson · #cdcdcb

Other grey fabrics

Across the houses we hold. See all 7,198.

Soft sage-grey fabric with looping trellis lines and dotted pale detailing

Layton Heather

Halcyon
Muted dove-grey sage ground with pale trailing flowers and a fine vertical weave

Liliana Dove

Halcyon
Pale feather grey fabric with fine horizontal slub texture and subtle taupe flecks

Havana Feather

Havana and Nevada
Pale silver-grey woven swatch with subtle horizontal striations and a soft matte sheen

Havana Silver

Havana and Nevada
Deep charcoal textile with fine tonal crosshatch lines and a dry woven texture

Nevada Charcoal

Havana and Nevada
Soft dove-grey woven fabric with pale broken chevron lines and flecked texture

Ashmore Dove

Heritage
Cool grey-charcoal woven fabric with small dotted teardrop floral motifs

Dorset Charcoal

Heritage
Stone-grey woven fabric with charcoal branching leaves and a softly textured ground

Ferndown Charcoal

Heritage
Close-up of pale dove-grey woven fabric with subtle taupe crosshatch texture

Milton Dove

Heritage
Charcoal grey woven fabric with ornate black botanical florals and paisley motifs

Woodsford Charcoal

Heritage
Fine plain woven fabric in soft ash grey with subtle crosshatched texture

Highlander Ash

Highlander 2
Deep charcoal grey plain weave with subtle vertical tonal texture

Highlander Charcoal

Highlander 2

We use necessary cookies to make the site work. With your consent we also use analytics and load embedded maps and reviews. Read our cookie policy.