Close-up of deep sapphire-blue fabric with a fine, subtly mottled woven texture

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Kirkby Design

Sahara Iii Sapphire

Name: Sahara Iii Sapphire
Brand: Kirkby Design

Sahara Iii Sapphire is a rich, cool blue textile with an understated woven texture. Its even surface reads as a confident block of colour, while faint tonal variation keeps the sapphire shade from appearing flat.

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About this fabric

The swatch shows a deep sapphire blue with a subtly mottled, close-woven surface and no visible printed or geometric motif. Fine vertical and horizontal threads create a quiet textile grain, giving the colour gentle depth as the light moves across it. The saturated blue has a cool, polished character that feels more vivid than navy while remaining visually even. No composition, width, rub test or other performance specification has been supplied for this colourway.

How to use it

Use this cool sapphire blue to give a chair, sofa or pair of curtains a strong colour presence without introducing a separate pattern. It works particularly well against pale neutrals, warm timber and brushed metal, which bring out the fabric’s subtle surface depth.

A deep, cool sapphire blue with a subtle woven surface that brings colour and texture without a visible pattern.

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Sahara Iii Sapphire 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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