Pale blue-grey and ivory small check with a softly nubby woven texture

Tap the swatch to see it larger. Colours on a screen are a guide, not a match, so come and feel the real cloth.

Isle Mill

Craigie Check Opal

Name: Craigie Check Opal
Brand: Isle Mill

Craigie Check Opal has a quiet, cool-toned character, combining pale blue-grey threads with warm ivory in a finely repeated check. The close weave gives the swatch a softly tactile, subtly mottled appearance rather than a crisp, high-contrast grid.

pale blue-grey check small relaxed both

Ask Ruth about this fabric See it in your room

See this fabric on Isle Mill's own site, then order it through us.

About this fabric

The small check is built from narrow blue-grey and ivory lines, creating a gentle rhythm that reads as a pale opal tone from a distance. Its woven surface has a fine, slightly nubby texture, while the low contrast keeps the pattern calm and easy to layer. The colour feels cool but not stark, with the ivory threads softening the blue-grey ground. No performance features or further specification data have been supplied for this fabric, so suitability should be confirmed against the intended project.

How to use it

Use this pale blue-grey check on a relaxed occasional chair, sofa or full-length curtain, then echo its warm ivory threads in upholstery piping, cushions or painted joinery. It works particularly well with chalky whites, pale oak and muted stone shades.

Pair the cool opal check with warm ivory, pale timber and softly aged neutrals for a calm, layered interior.

Isle Mill Craigie Hill Fabric

More from Craigie Hill

The same book, other colourways.

Close-up of pale stone and charcoal plaid with a softly textured woven surface

Craigie Plaid Stone

Craigie Hill

Close-up of opal blue plaid with misty grey, ivory and blush bands

Craigie Plaid Opal

Craigie Hill

Muted blue-green plaid with burgundy bands and nubby woven texture

Craigie Plaid Catkin

Craigie Hill

Muted heather-mauve and cream check with softly nubby woven texture

Craigie Check Heather

Craigie Hill

Soft greige plaid with taupe windowpane lines and chunky woven texture

Craigie Check Croft

Craigie Hill

Warm harvest beige check with ochre lines and a softly nubby woven texture

Craigie Check Harvest

Craigie Hill

Muted sage and beige woven check with blue-green flecks and tactile texture

Craigie Check Catkin

Craigie Hill

Warm stone taupe woven check with blurred houndstooth panels and tactile texture

Craigie Check Stone

Craigie Hill

Moss olive paisley with plum accents in a close, textured woven fabric

Craigie Paisley Heather

Craigie Hill

Close-up of stone taupe woven fabric with charcoal paisley and raised texture

Craigie Paisley Stone

Craigie Hill

Deep olive-brown woven paisley with khaki highlights and a tactile compact texture

Craigie Paisley Croft

Craigie Hill

Muted olive woven paisley with rust and mustard flecks, close-up swatch

Craigie Paisley Harvest

Craigie Hill

See the whole collection

Pairs well with

A pattern needs somewhere for the eye to rest, so these are the plains and textures that sit beside Craigie Check Opal without fighting it. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.

Henley Chambray

Henley

Midori Chambray

Midori

Pale blue-grey woven fabric with subtle crosshatch texture and cloudy tonal variation

Mineral Cloud

Mineral

Pale blue-grey Beagle fabric with a fine, even woven texture

Beagle Lagoon Linen Fabric

Misc

Pale blue-grey textured swatch with fine woven grain arranged in soft folds

Wren Brook Fabric | Plain Texture Light Blue Fabric

Misc

Pale blue-grey Helios fabric with subtle cloudy horizontal woven texture

Helios - Ciel

Misc

Leaf Abyss

Leaf Ii

Pale blue-grey plain weave with subtle crosshatched texture and a misty finish

Korifr Solent

Ioka Fr

Pale blue-grey woven textile with a fine irregular crosshatch texture

Leoni Cirrus

Leoni

Pale sky-blue linen with fine woven texture and softly folded surface

Elba Sky

Elba

Pale azur blue-grey jacquard with chunky horizontal ridges and tonal patchwork bands

Patchwork Azur

Jacquard fabrics

Pale celeste blue-grey cloth with a barely visible vertical woven texture

Venere Celeste

Curtain fabrics

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

Double Silver

Zoffany · #ada9a0

To stand against it

Brinjal

Farrow & Ball · #5e4348

Other blue fabrics

Across the houses we hold. See all 7,979.

Near-black woven fabric with scattered kingfisher-blue, teal, green and mustard flecks

Lochore Kingfisher

Lochore Meadow

Close-up of blue-grey woven cloth with green and yellow flecks

Lochore Castle Skylark

Lochore Meadow

Smoky opal blue and charcoal gingham with a softly brushed woven texture

Callanish Gingham Opal

Rosslyn Park

Muted denim-blue twill with a softly flecked, fine woven surface

Heather Denim

Rosslyn Park

Near-black midnight-blue fabric with a fine, shadowed diagonal twill weave

Sloane Midnight

Sloane Square

Dark blue-charcoal woven fabric with dense small-scale chevron texture

Sloane Mews Midnight

Sloane Square

Close-up of midnight blue-black stripe with fine diagonal woven texture

Sloane Stripe Midnight

Sloane Square

Deep navy Montrose Melton swatch with subtle cloudy tonal texture

Montrose Melton Navy

Inchcolm Abbey

Dark indigo plaid with slate, oatmeal and rust lines in a softly brushed weave

Holmes - Indigo

Misc

Deep indigo and plum-brown woven fabric with tiny pale diamond motifs

Franklin - Indigo

Misc

Denim-blue woven grid of dark squares, pale lines and textured blue bands

Pompidou - Denim

Misc

Indigo plaid textile with olive, rose and cream lines in a textured weave

Woolf - Indigo

Misc