Close-up of Smooth Rhino’s softly textured grey taupe plain fabric surface

Tap the swatch to see it larger. Colours on a screen are a guide, not a match, so come and feel the real cloth.

Kirkby Design

Smooth Rhino

Smooth Iii Fabric

Smooth Rhino is a quiet, plain taupe fabric with a softly textured surface. Its muted grey-brown tone gives the swatch a calm, understated depth rather than a strong decorative effect.

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See this fabric on Kirkby Design's own site, then order it through us.

About this fabric

The close-up shows an even, unpatterned surface in muted grey-brown taupe, with fine texture instead of a pronounced motif. Its low-contrast colouring reads as a balanced warm-neutral, while the subtle surface variation prevents it from appearing flat. No composition, width, usage or rub-test specification is supplied for this exact fabric.

How to use it

Use this muted grey taupe where a room needs a soft, tonal neutral that sits comfortably beside warm timber, stone or deeper brown accents. Its plain surface is well suited to keeping larger upholstered or curtained areas visually quiet.

A calm grey taupe with a smooth, subtly textured surface for understated upholstery or drapery schemes.

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

English Toffee

Zoffany · #ab9b8c

To stand against it

Incarnadine

Farrow & Ball · #9b4546

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