Close-up of ivory woven fabric with a fine charcoal-black irregular grid

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Kirkby Design

Boxes Liquorice

Lines Fabric

Boxes Liquorice is a pale ivory-and-charcoal woven check with a quietly tactile surface. In this close view, the fine dark lines break up the light ground into closely packed, softly irregular boxes.

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About this fabric

The base reads as warm ivory or oatmeal, while slender black-charcoal threads create a small-scale grid across the cloth. Because the lines are integrated into the weave, the pattern has a softened, textural edge rather than a sharp printed finish. Subtle variation in the thread density gives the light ground depth, while the liquorice accents keep the overall colourway crisp and graphic. The supplied record lists no performance features for this colourway.

How to use it

Use the warm ivory ground to lighten an upholstered chair or sofa, with the charcoal grid picked up in blackened timber, metal or piping. Its restrained contrast works especially well where a neutral needs more definition than a plain weave.

A tactile neutral with a small-scale grid for defined, contemporary upholstery.

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

Beech Grey

Sanderson · #b3aa99

To stand against it

Newby Green

Sanderson · #425564

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