Close-up of grey woven textile with charcoal mottled flecks and slate texture

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Isle Mill

Ashton Texture Lead

Name: Ashton Texture Lead
Brand: Isle Mill

Ashton Texture Lead is a densely woven grey textile with an irregular, painterly spread of charcoal and slate marks. Pale grey ground areas give the close-up a softly contrasted, tactile appearance.

charcoal slate grey abstract medium smart upholstery

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About this fabric

The weave is visually substantial, with tightly packed diagonal yarns creating a dry, textured surface rather than a smooth finish. Its colourway moves between pale grey, mid grey, slate and near-charcoal, producing depth without a bright or saturated accent. The irregular dark patches and broken flecks give the fabric an organic, weathered character while retaining a smart overall tone. The catalogued type is Fabric, and no performance features are noted for this exact textile.

How to use it

Use this cool grey colourway on a tailored armchair, sofa or ottoman where its charcoal variation can sit comfortably with blackened wood, concrete, pale timber and soft grey walls. Keep surrounding textiles relatively plain so the mottled weave remains the room’s main surface detail.

A dense, directional weave with charcoal and slate variation for tailored upholstery.

Isle Mill Ashton Lane Fabric

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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 Ashton Texture Lead 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

Gargoyle

Zoffany · #5f5f61

To stand against it

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