Tap the swatch to see it full screen. Hover it to magnify the weave. Colours on a screen are a guide, not a match, so come and feel the real cloth.
Scroll up or down to zoom in and out.
Bear Balsam
Volume Fabric
Bear Balsam presents a deep teal-green ground with softly shifting, cloud-like tonal variation across the surface. Its close texture catches the light unevenly, giving the colour quiet depth rather than a flat, saturated finish.
You have used your previews for today. Send one to Simon and you can carry on.
Your board
0 fabrics
See this fabric on Kirkby Design's own site, then order it through us.
See Bear Balsam in your own room
A photograph of the piece you want re-covered. Straight on is best, and daylight helps. It is used to make your picture and nothing else.
Looking at your room
We found things here Bear Balsam could go on. Tap one on the photograph, or choose below.
We could not see anything to re-cover
, s
Bear Balsam, on your
Drag to compare. AI impression, colours indicative: ask us for a cutting before you decide.
About this fabric
This Volume fabric reads as a muted blue-green, balancing the coolness of teal with a softened, earthy cast. The visible surface has a brushed, lightly napped appearance, with pale and darker patches moving subtly across the swatch. No composition, width, rub test or performance features have been supplied for this exact fabric, so suitability should be confirmed against the intended upholstery application. The restrained variation makes Bear Balsam feel composed and textural rather than decorative or high-contrast.
How to use it
Use Bear Balsam to bring a calm, atmospheric teal-green note to an upholstered chair, sofa or headboard. Pair it with oak, aged brass, warm ivory and woven natural textures to temper its cool depth.
Use this subdued teal-green upholstery on a statement chair or sofa, with warm timber and natural neutrals.
More from Volume
The same book, other colourways.
Bear Ash
Volume
Bear Cream
Volume
Bear Glacier
Volume
Bear Midnight
Volume
Bear Powder
Volume
Brush Aluminium
Volume
Brush Cream
Volume
Brush Glacier
Volume
Brush Midnight
Volume
Brush Powder
Volume
Cricket Fossil
Volume
Cricket Reed
Volume
Pairs well with
Bear Balsam 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.
Cove Spa
Belvoir Collection
Meteor Peacock
Comet Collection
Pergola Shades Soft Azur
Cabanon Fabrics
Soft Pantigre Turquoise
Nouveaux Mondes Fabrics
Passiflora Outdoor Kingfisher
Alfresco Indoor Outdoor Fabric
Coronado Aquamarine
Alfresco Indoor Outdoor Weaves
Georgia Aqua
Ashdown
Tapestry Garden Blue
Ashdown
Mazarin Teal
Cartouche Fabrics
Portland Delft
Fitzrovia Fabrics
Feather Teal
Acacia
Kintyre FR Teal
Alderney
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
Goblin
Little Greene · #446562
To stand against it
Sybil
Coat Paints · #c1a18c
Other teal fabrics
Across the houses we hold. See all 2,990.
Pullman Petrol
Underground Volii
Bakerloo Petrol
Underground Voliii
Eden Petrol
Underground Voliii
Northern Petrol
Underground Voliii
Mist Aquamarine
Utility
Spray Balsam
Utility
Utility Mallard
Utility
Chelsea Aquamarine
Chelsea Ii
Chelsea Coast
Chelsea Ii
Chelsea Deep Teal
Chelsea Ii
Chelsea Kingfisher
Chelsea Ii
Pure Balsam
Chelsea