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Sparrow
Chennai Carpet
Sparrow is a softly mottled warm grey with a close, nubby surface that gives the plain colour gentle depth. The fine irregular weave catches the light in lighter and darker flecks across the swatch.
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About this fabric
Catalogued as a Carpet, Sparrow has a dense-looking woven surface with no separate printed motif visible in the swatch. Its warm grey ground is varied by pale stone and deeper grey threads, creating a softly peppered appearance rather than a flat solid. The compact texture reads substantial and tactile, with a restrained, relaxed character. This colourway’s low contrast makes the surface detail noticeable up close while keeping the overall impression calm from a distance.
How to use it
Pair Sparrow’s warm, mottled grey with chalky whites, pale oak and taupe textiles to bring out its quiet stone-like tonal variation. It would also temper darker timber or charcoal accents without introducing a strong colour contrast.
Use this softly mottled warm grey as a quietly textural upholstery neutral with pale timber and layered natural tones.
Pairs well with
Sparrow 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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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
Elephant Grey
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To stand against it
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