Muted chartreuse-yellow woven swatch with fine vertical striations and softly varied texture

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Kirkby Design

Trace Zest

Name: Trace Zest
Brand: Kirkby Design

Trace Zest brings a warm yellow-green tone to the Trace collection. In the swatch, fine vertical lines and slight tonal variation soften its plain woven appearance.

muted chartreuse yellow plain none smart upholstery

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About this fabric

Trace Zest is catalogued as a fabric, with a softly mottled surface that sits between chartreuse and muted olive. Fine vertical striations run through the close weave, creating a lightly tactile rhythm without a printed motif. The colour has a fresh zest quality, while its subdued depth keeps it from reading as a bright acid yellow. No composition or performance figures were supplied for this colourway, so suitability should be confirmed against the intended application.

How to use it

Use Trace Zest on an occasional chair, headboard or sofa to introduce a warm chartreuse accent without overwhelming the room. Pair it with chalky neutrals, natural timber and deeper olive or tobacco tones to draw out its muted depth.

A warm zest shade that adds gentle colour and subtle woven texture to upholstered furniture.

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Trace Zest 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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