Close-up of warm ochre textile with a fine, tightly woven flecked surface

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Kirkby Design

Alter Ochre

Alter Ochre has a warm, mellow golden tone that reads as ochre rather than bright yellow. Its close, regular weave creates a softly flecked surface, with fine variations of light and darker thread visible across the swatch.

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About this fabric

This Arco Textures colourway is a finely woven textile in a grounded ochre shade, balancing mustard warmth with a muted, natural depth. The tiny interlaced threads give the surface a discreetly grainy appearance rather than a pronounced motif or directional pattern. Alter Ochre is catalogued as a fabric, with no composition, width, rub test or performance features supplied for this exact colourway. Its even, mid-weight-looking surface makes it suitable to consider for both upholstery and drapery, subject to project-specific testing.

How to use it

Use Alter Ochre to add a softly golden note to a neutral room, where its muted warmth can sit comfortably with taupe, stone, timber and aged brass. The fine weave is also well suited to pairing with plain linens or more tactile upholstery fabrics.

The warm ochre tone and fine woven texture bring understated golden depth to upholstery, curtains or cushions.

Kirkby Design Arco Textures Fabric

Specification

Composition: 67% Viscose 16% Cotton 12% Linen 3% Acrylic 2% Nylon
Width: 140 cms (55.1 ")
Rub test (Martindale): 50,000 Severe Domestic
Suitable for: Curtains And Drapes, Upholstery
Style: Semi-plain
Aftercare: Do Not Bleach, Consult Specialist Dry Cleaner, Do Not Tumble Dry, Cool Iron, Do Not Machine Or Hand Wash
Environmental: REACH Compliant, PFAS Free
Product type: Plain / Textured Weave
Sample size: 17cm x 13cm
Wyzenbeek: 40,000

Specification as published by Kirkby Design. 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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Alter Ochre 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

Twining Vine

Morris & Co. · #9c905e

To stand against it

Bone China Blue

Little Greene · #a8b9bd