Close-up of a soft flax beige plain-woven fabric with fine textured weave

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Colefax and Fowler

Marldon Flax

Name: Marldon Flax
Brand: Colefax and Fowler
SKU: F3701-06

Albeck FabricF3701-06

Marldon Flax is a softly textured plain weave in an easy flax beige with a gentle warmth running through the surface. The close weave gives it a calm, understated look that feels natural and refined.

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See this fabric on Colefax and Fowler's own site, then order it through us.

About this fabric

This colourway reads as a muted flax beige with a subtly melange finish, where the lighter fibres lift the surface without making it look stark. The cloth has a neat, small-scale woven texture that keeps the appearance grounded and tactile rather than flat. With a width of approximately 145cm and no repeat, it is an uncomplicated choice for tailored use. The composition of 57% viscose, 21% cotton, 12% linen and 10% polyester gives it a balanced handle suited to both upholstery and drapery applications.

How to use it

Use Marldon Flax to soften darker timber, limestone, or painted joinery, where its warm beige tone adds depth without overpowering the room. It works especially well with natural linens, muted greens, and aged brass for a calm, layered scheme.

A quiet neutral that works beautifully across upholstery and curtains.

Colefax and Fowler Albeck Fabric

Specification

Care code: Q 8 < T 3
Composition: 57% Viscose, 21% Cotton, 12% Linen, 10% Polyester
Fire code: √CH
Pattern repeat: V 0cm / H 0cm approx
Width: 145cm approx

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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Marldon Flax 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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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

Fossil

Zoffany · #a8a18f

To stand against it

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