Simon Houlding Upholstery
Dense midnight blue floral velvet with cream foliage, blush flowers and sage leaves

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Clarke & Clarke

Francis Midnight Velvet

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Francis Midnight Velvet is built around a deep midnight-blue ground, densely scattered with cream foliage, blush flowers, muted sage leaves and ochre-gold fruit-like forms. The dark base gives the floral surface a cool, quietly dramatic depth.

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About this fabric

The compact floral field combines pale cream leaves with pink and blush blooms, sage-green foliage and small ochre-gold botanical accents against the midnight ground. Its 45.7 cm vertical repeat and 34.5 cm horizontal repeat keep the varied pattern closely spaced across the 138 cm usable width. The 204 gsm velvet has a softly textured appearance in the photograph, with the darker blue areas giving the design additional visual depth. A standard length of 40 m provides the stated production measure for upholstery planning.

How to use it

Use this cool midnight colourway on a buttoned armchair, dining seat or footstool where its cream and blush flowers can soften the dark blue ground. Pair it with warm ivory, aged timber and muted sage accents to draw out the quieter tones in the pattern.

A richly patterned midnight-blue velvet suited to upholstered chairs, footstools and occasional seating.

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Pairs well with

A pattern needs somewhere for the eye to rest, so these are the plains and textures that sit beside Francis Midnight Velvet without fighting it. 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

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To sit quietly behind it

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