Simon Houlding Upholstery
Muted chestnut-taupe textile with a fine, flecked woven surface

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Kirkby Design

Gobi Chestnut

Gobi Fabric

Gobi Chestnut has a muted chestnut-taupe tone, softened by fine grey-brown flecking across its closely woven surface. The understated texture gives the colour quiet depth rather than a flat, solid appearance.

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About this fabric

This Kirkby Design fabric is shown as a dense, fine weave with a subtly irregular, flecked texture visible across the swatch. Its chestnut base is tempered with taupe and grey-brown threads, creating a warm but restrained neutral. The surface reads matte overall, with tiny changes in the weave adding gentle tonal variation as the light moves across it. No further composition, width or performance specification has been supplied for this colourway.

How to use it

Use Gobi Chestnut on an upholstered chair, sofa or headboard where its warm taupe-brown depth can anchor softer creams, aged timber and other natural neutrals. Its quiet woven texture also suits relaxed, tonal interiors that need more warmth than a cool grey.

The dense, subtly flecked weave brings warm chestnut depth to relaxed upholstery schemes.

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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.

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