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Carnegie Tweed

Animal Kingdom Fabric

Carnegie Tweed appears here as a warm taupe-brown cloth with a fine, tightly woven tweed look and a calm matte finish. The colour sits between brown and grey, giving it an understated, grounded feel.

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About this fabric

This Carnegie Tweed colourway from Porter & Stone’s Animal Kingdom collection is a fabric with a subtle crosshatch texture that reads close and even across the surface. The 78% polyester and 22% cotton composition supports a practical, stable feel, while the 140cm width makes it straightforward for upholstery projects. Its pattern repeat is 0cm vertical by 4.3cm horizontal, though the effect is more of a textural weave than a bold motif. In this shade, the cloth looks like a muted taupe-brown with a slightly dry, tweedy depth and a soft low sheen that catches the light gently.

How to use it

Use this shade on sofas, dining chairs or ottomans where a smart neutral is needed without looking flat. It pairs especially well with oak, putty paint colours and darker accent woods for a layered, natural scheme.

A quietly tailored neutral that works beautifully on hardworking seating and relaxed cushions.

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Carnegie Tweed 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.

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