Taupe-grey woven fabric with ivory vertical bands and irregular leaf motifs

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Clarke & Clarke

Risco Linen

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Risco Linen has a softly mottled taupe-grey ground crossed by slim ivory bands and repeated, irregular horizontal motifs. Its low-contrast palette gives the vertical design a composed, tactile depth.

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About this fabric

Risco Linen pairs a softly mottled taupe-grey ground with narrow ivory vertical bands and repeated, brush-like horizontal leaf forms. The pale motifs have irregular, lightly textured edges in the image, giving the orderly stripe layout a hand-worked quality. At 308 gsm and 138 cm usable width, it is a versatile mid-weight for upholstery or drapery. Both the vertical and horizontal pattern repeats measure 23 cm, keeping the alternating columns clearly legible across a chair, headboard or curtain.

How to use it

Use the cool, muted taupe-grey ground to bring quiet structure to a neutral sitting room, pairing it with ivory upholstery details, pale timber or brushed metal. The vertical bands would also give curtains or a headboard a subtly elongating effect.

Muted taupe-grey and ivory give the vertical pattern a calm, quietly tailored presence in upholstery or curtains.

Pairs well with

A pattern needs somewhere for the eye to rest, so these are the plains and textures that sit beside Risco Linen without fighting it. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.

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

Cool Arbour

Little Greene · #b1ab9b

To stand against it

Smith & The Devil

Coat Paints · #70423f

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