Warm rust velvet with a softly brushed nap and darker folded bands

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Harlequin

Performance Velvets Rust

Performance Velvet VelvetHAF0562-22

Performance Velvets Rust is a richly warm, reddish terracotta velvet with a softly brushed surface. The folded swatch shows the nap catching the light in glowing copper highlights and deeper rust shadows.

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About this fabric

This plain velvet has a dense 540gsm handle, making it well suited to upholstery rather than lightweight window treatments. Its 141cm usable width provides practical coverage for seating projects. With no pattern repeat horizontally or vertically, the uninterrupted rust surface can be oriented freely across cushions, chairs and sofas. The nap creates visible tonal shifts across the folds, moving from burnished terracotta highlights to dusky red-brown depth.

How to use it

Pair this warm rust colourway with smoked timber, aged brass and creamy neutrals for a grounded, enveloping scheme. Its red-brown depth is especially effective on a statement armchair or tailored sofa where the changing nap can be seen.

Use this warm rust velvet to bring depth and softly changing light to upholstered seating.

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

Bamboozle

Farrow & Ball · #a75446

To stand against it

Logwood Grey

Zoffany · #888689

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