Close-up of muted olive leaf motif on a pale sandy fabric ground

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Colefax and Fowler

Malabar Leaf

Name: Malabar Leaf
Brand: Colefax and Fowler
SKU: 03051-12

Malabar Fabric03051-12

Malabar Leaf reads as a softly dappled olive fabric, with tiny leaf-like marks scattered across a warm pale ground.

muted olive green textured small smart both

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

About this fabric

This Malabar Leaf colourway combines a muted olive motif with a light, sandy background, giving the cloth an understated, speckled look rather than a strong contrast. The repeat is approximately V 15cm / H 11cm, which helps the small leaf pattern sit in gentle vertical bands across the width. Woven in 90% cotton and 10% polyester and measuring approximately 132cm wide, it has the practicality of a decorative fabric that can sit comfortably on furniture or at the window. The overall effect is fresh but restrained, with the green reading earthy and softened rather than bright.

How to use it

Use it to bring subtle pattern to upholstered chairs, cushions, or relaxed curtains where the olive tone can sit against oak, rattan, and chalky neutrals. It works especially well in rooms that need colour without losing a calm, natural palette.

A quietly patterned olive leaf design that layers well with linen neutrals and deeper wood tones.

Colefax and Fowler Malabar Fabric

Specification

Care code: Q 8 < T 3
Composition: 90% Cotton, 10% Polyester
Fire code: √CM
Pattern repeat: V 15cm / H 11cm approx
Width: 132cm 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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Malabar Leaf 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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