Warm flax fabric with fine vertical stripes and subtle woven texture

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Kirkby Design

Cast Flax

Name: Cast Flax
Brand: Kirkby Design

Cast Flax is a softly textured flax-beige fabric with slender vertical stripes running across the swatch. Its pale, warm tone is gently varied rather than flat, giving the surface a natural woven depth.

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About this fabric

The design is made up of closely spaced vertical lines, with slightly darker beige stripes set against a lighter flax-coloured ground. Fine surface variation catches the light along the weave, creating a restrained contrast without a bold graphic effect. The overall tone reads warm and understated, with the natural softness associated with undyed flax shades. No performance features are noted in the supplied specification for this fabric.

How to use it

Use Cast Flax where a room needs a warm neutral with subtle direction: on a relaxed armchair, tailored blinds or full-length curtains. Its narrow vertical stripe can add quiet height while sitting comfortably alongside timber, chalky whites and muted taupes.

Use this warm flax stripe to bring quiet vertical rhythm to upholstery, cushions or curtains.

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Pairs well with

A pattern needs somewhere for the eye to rest, so these are the plains and textures that sit beside Cast Flax without fighting it. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.

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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.

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