Warm taupe-grey textile swatch with a smooth, softly mottled surface

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Kirkby Design

Smooth Driftwood

Smooth Iii Fabric

Smooth Driftwood settles into a muted brown-grey with a gentle warmth, avoiding the cooler cast of a silver grey. Its close, softly mottled surface gives the plain colour quiet depth without introducing a visible motif.

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About this fabric

This colourway presents a smooth, even textile face in warm taupe-grey, with fine tonal variation visible across the swatch. The brown influence becomes more apparent in the mid-tones, giving Driftwood a grounded, softly weathered character. Its restrained surface and absence of a printed pattern make it suitable for both upholstery and drapery. No composition, width or performance specification has been supplied for this exact colourway.

How to use it

Pair Smooth Driftwood with chalky creams, natural timber and softened brown accents to draw out its warm, weathered tone. It also works as a quiet connecting shade between beige and grey furnishings.

Use this warm taupe-grey plain textile to bring understated depth to upholstery, curtains or tonal layering.

Pairs well with

Smooth Driftwood 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.

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

Olivine

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To stand against it

Half Pebble

Zoffany · #dfd8c6

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