Close-up of mallard green textile with dense beige-grey flecks and fine irregular texture

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Kirkby Design

Spiral Mallard

Name: Spiral Mallard
Brand: Kirkby Design

Spiral Mallard presents a cool mallard-teal ground, finely broken up with pale beige, grey and darker green threads. In close view, the surface reads as a softly irregular woven texture rather than a distinct printed motif.

muted mallard teal textured small relaxed upholstery

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About this fabric

This colourway combines muted teal-green with a dense scatter of beige, grey and deeper green flecks, creating gentle tonal depth across the surface. The fine, closely worked texture catches the light in small variations, giving the cloth a softly nubby and subtly weathered appearance. The supplied listing catalogues it as Fabric and notes no performance features.

How to use it

Use the cool mallard-teal tone on a tailored sofa, dining chair or ottoman, then balance its flecked surface with warm ivory, sand and natural timber. The muted colour also sits comfortably alongside charcoal or deeper blue-green accents.

Use this muted mallard teal on a sofa or occasional chair, pairing it with warm neutrals to bring out the flecked surface.

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Spiral Mallard 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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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.

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