Simon Houlding Upholstery
Pale stone-taupe carpet with close irregular loops forming subtle vertical rows

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Sea Shale

Primo Textures Carpet

Sea Shale is a pale stone-taupe carpet with a closely looped surface and fine vertical movement. Its softly mottled appearance gives the neutral colourway gentle depth without a pronounced pattern.

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About this fabric

The visible ground combines light taupe, warm ivory and subtle grey-beige flecks, creating a quiet, lightly weathered tone. Closely packed loops run in narrow, irregular vertical rows, giving the surface a tactile, softly corded character. As an Easy Clean Loop carpet, Sea Shale is defined by its practical looped construction rather than a printed motif. The restrained contrast keeps the texture understated while allowing the changing pile direction to catch the light.

How to use it

Use Sea Shale where a calm, pale taupe foundation is needed, pairing its softly striated texture with warm woods, chalky whites and layered natural upholstery. Its gentle stone cast also sits comfortably beside muted grey-beige and oatmeal tones.

A softly striated, looped neutral with a tactile surface and understated depth.

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Pairs well with

Sea Shale 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

Light Gray

Farrow & Ball · #b0a593

To stand against it

Carmen Light

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