Close-up of chocolate brown fabric with fine horizontal striations and soft texture

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Kirkby Design

Sense Chocolate

Name: Sense Chocolate
Brand: Kirkby Design

Sense Chocolate has a deep, warm chocolate-brown tone with a closely textured surface. Fine horizontal tonal movement gives the plain ground a softly tactile, understated character.

deep chocolate brown plain none smart upholstery

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About this fabric

As a fabric from Kirkby Design’s 4d Upholstery collection, Sense Chocolate is suited to upholstery applications. The dark brown colour reads rich rather than black, with subtle lighter and deeper threads creating gentle depth across the surface. Its close, slightly brushed-looking texture keeps the plain design from appearing flat while retaining a smart, composed finish.

How to use it

Pair this warm chocolate brown with camel, oatmeal and aged timber for a grounded scheme, or use it against pale walls so the softly striated texture becomes more noticeable.

Use this warm chocolate brown on upholstered seating where its fine tonal texture can add depth without introducing a pattern.

Kirkby Design 4d Upholstery Fabric

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Sense Chocolate 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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