Simon Houlding Upholstery
Dense black-and-cream jagged feather motif woven across a textured monochrome surface

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Flash Monochrome

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Flash Monochrome makes an immediate graphic impression: dense black, jagged strokes cluster over a creamy ground, creating shifting currents rather than a regular repeat. In the close-up, the compact weave gives the high-contrast design a tactile, fabric-led finish.

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About this fabric

Flash Monochrome is built from a tightly packed field of sharp, broken marks that sweep into irregular, feather-like eddies across the surface. The ink-black shapes sit crisply against a warm off-white ground, giving this colourway a bold graphic read rather than a softened grey effect. The close image shows a textured woven face, with the uneven black-and-cream marks breaking up the light across the cloth. No composition, width, rub-test or performance-feature data has been supplied for this exact fabric, so those details should be confirmed before ordering.

How to use it

Use this black-and-cream colourway on a statement chair or upholstered headboard where its directional marks can remain the focal point. Balance the ink tone with warm ivory, pale timber or restrained charcoal rather than introducing another strong pattern.

Use this high-contrast monochrome textile as a graphic focal point on upholstery.

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