Close-up of a softly textured dusty blue woven fabric with fine slubbed threads

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Colefax and Fowler

Brandon Old Blue

Albeck FabricF4684-11

Brandon Old Blue is a quietly textured cloth with a cool, misted blue cast and a soft speckled surface. The weave reads understated and refined rather than boldly patterned.

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About this fabric

Brandon Old Blue from the Albeck collection by Colefax and Fowler is a 144cm-wide fabric with no visible repeat, making its texture and colour the focus. The composition of 48% viscose, 27% cotton, 18% polyester and 7% linen gives the surface a gently slubby, slightly irregular handle that suits the softly broken look visible here. Its pale old-blue tone sits between blue and grey, with a lightly weathered finish that keeps it calm and adaptable. With no performance features noted and a fire code of √BM, it is best treated as an elegant decorative fabric for considered interiors.

How to use it

Use this shade for a relaxed upholstered chair or a tailored headboard where the muted blue-grey tone can read fresh without feeling icy. It also works well beside chalk white, pebble grey and natural wood to keep the room quiet and coherent.

A restrained blue that works neatly across upholstery and curtains.

Colefax and Fowler Albeck Fabric

Specification

Composition: 48% Viscose, 27% Cotton, 18% Polyester, 7% Linen
Width: 144cm approx
Pattern repeat: V 0cm / H 0cm approx
Fire code: √BM
Care code: Q 8 < T 3

Specification as published by Colefax and Fowler. 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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Brandon Old Blue 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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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.

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