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

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Performance Velvets Rust

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.

warm rust terracotta plain none luxe upholstery

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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.

Harlequin Performance Velvet Velvet

Specification

Usable width: 141 cm
Standard length: 0 m
Vertical repeat: 0 cm
Horizontal repeat: 0 cm
Weight: 540 gsm

Specification as published by Harlequin. 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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Performance Velvets Rust 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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