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Slate-blue and dove acanthus leaves with cream outlines in a repeating wallpaper design

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Clarke & Clarke

Acanthus Slate/Dove

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Acanthus Slate/Dove pairs cool slate-blue foliage with dove, soft cream and muted taupe leaves. The densely drawn acanthus scrolls create a gently layered botanical surface, with pale outlines keeping the design light.

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About this fabric

This Clarke & Clarke wallpaper is supplied in a 52 cm usable width and a standard 10.05 m length. Its 31.8 cm vertical pattern repeat builds a continuous arrangement of curling acanthus leaves, rounded buds and fine internal linework. The colourway reads as distinctly cool and settled: slate blue gives the foliage depth, while dove grey, cream and restrained taupe soften the contrast. At 150 gsm, it has a lightweight wallpaper specification suited to creating an enveloping decorative backdrop rather than a heavily textured wall finish.

How to use it

Use Slate/Dove across a bedroom or study where its cool blue-grey foliage can sit comfortably with chalky whites, pale timber and weathered taupe upholstery. It also brings quiet botanical character to a small cloakroom or reading nook without relying on strong saturation.

Use this cool, softly layered colourway to bring an elegant botanical rhythm to bedrooms, studies or quiet sitting rooms.

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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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