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Kirkby Design

Layer Fern

Name: Layer Fern
Brand: Kirkby Design

Layer Fern is a muted olive-green textile with a gently variegated surface. Fine pale threads and horizontal slubs move across the earthy fern ground, giving the colour quiet depth.

muted olive fern plain none relaxed both

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About this fabric

The weave reads as olive softened with brown, rather than a bright or yellow green, creating a subdued natural tone. Small irregular flecks and broken horizontal lines catch the light across the otherwise even surface. This colourway is catalogued as a fabric, with no further composition, width or performance specifications supplied. Its closely woven appearance and understated texture make it suitable to consider for both upholstery and drapery applications, subject to project requirements.

How to use it

Use Layer Fern to add muted botanical colour to a calm room, pairing its brown-olive depth with warm timber, stone, clay or softly contrasting pale neutrals. Its low-key woven texture works particularly well on a simple upholstered form or an unfussy curtain.

A softly textured olive weave that brings earthy depth to upholstery, cushions or relaxed window treatments.

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Pairs well with

Layer Fern 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

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To stand against it

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