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.

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.

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