Soft ivory sheer curtain fabric with subtle vertical folds and airy drape

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Colefax and Fowler

Bute White

Name: Bute White
Brand: Colefax and Fowler
SKU: F4029-01

Bute White is a quietly luminous sheer in a soft ivory white, shown here as long, fluid drops with a gentle, translucent hand. Its finish feels calm and airy rather than stark, with the weave reading as smooth and lightly textured in the light.

soft ivory white plain none relaxed drapery

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About this fabric

Bute White from the Liliana Sheers collection by Colefax and Fowler is composed of 63% Linen and 37% Polyester, with no repeat, making it ideal for a clean, uninterrupted window fall. The 288cm approximate width is especially useful for wide drapery spans and elegant full-length curtains. Visually, this colourway sits in a soft ivory-white range with a faintly warm cast, so it feels fresher than cream but gentler than a bright optic white. The sheer surface catches light evenly, creating pale vertical bands and a subtle linen character without any obvious pattern.

How to use it

Use Bute White where you want daylight to stay bright but softened, especially in contemporary living rooms, bedrooms, or layered sheer curtains. Its restrained ivory tone pairs well with pale oak, plaster pinks, and muted stone finishes.

A sheer ivory-white with an airy, softened finish for light-filled windows.

Colefax and Fowler Liliana Sheers Fabric

Specification

Care code: C 8 + T 3
Composition: 63% Linen, 37% Polyester
Fire code: Z
Pattern repeat: V 0cm / H 0cm approx
Width: 288cm 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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Bute White 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

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To stand against it

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