Simon Houlding Upholstery
Olive-green velvet with dark diamond scales and mottled lime highlights

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House of Hackney

COBRA Velvet - Laurustine

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Laurustine is a richly mottled olive velvet, layered with near-black scale-like diamonds and flashes of moss and chartreuse. The dense, irregular pattern gives the swatch a shadowy, reptile-inspired depth.

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About this fabric

This colourway combines a deep olive ground with darker green-black diamond markings and scattered yellow-green highlights. The pattern reads like overlapping scales, while irregular tonal patches keep the surface from appearing flat or uniform. As a velvet, it has a plush, light-responsive character that intensifies the contrast between the shadowed green areas and brighter olive flecks. No performance features are noted for this exact fabric.

How to use it

Use Laurustine for an upholstered accent chair, footstool or cushion where its dark olive tone can act as a dramatic focal point. Pair it with warm timber, aged brass and plain stone or oatmeal textiles to soften the high-contrast scale pattern.

Use this deep olive velvet on a statement chair or ottoman, balancing its dark scale-like texture with quiet neutral furnishings.

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Pairs well with

A pattern needs somewhere for the eye to rest, so these are the plains and textures that sit beside COBRA Velvet - Laurustine without fighting it. 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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