Ivory fabric densely scattered with irregular black flecks and tactile woven texture

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

Ember Monochrome

Name: Ember Monochrome
Brand: Kirkby Design

Ember Monochrome combines an ivory-toned ground with a dense scatter of black flecks, creating a sharply defined monochrome surface. The close-up view reveals a tactile, irregular texture rather than a flat printed finish.

black-flecked ivory textured small smart upholstery

Ask Ruth about this fabric See it in your room

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

About this fabric

Small black and charcoal marks are dispersed across the pale ground, with denser areas creating softly mottled movement across the cloth. The contrast is crisp but softened by the uneven scale of the flecks, giving the colourway an earthy, ink-on-paper character. Its visibly textured surface reads as a substantial upholstery fabric, while the restrained palette keeps the overall effect smart and controlled. No further performance or construction specification is supplied for this colourway.

How to use it

Use Ember Monochrome on a tailored armchair, dining seat or compact sofa where its ivory base can brighten the form and the black flecks can link to dark timber, metal or graphic accessories. Keep surrounding tones quiet so the irregular surface remains the focal point.

Pair the ivory ground and crisp black flecks with tailored upholstery and restrained monochrome accents.

Kirkby Design Volume Fabric

More from Volume

The same book, other colourways.

Cool glacier-grey nubby upholstery covering rounded lounge chairs in strong sunlight

Brush Glacier

Volume

Close-up of dense midnight-blue brushed fibres with softly mottled dark texture

Brush Midnight

Volume

Dusty blush-pink fabric with dense shaggy fibres and softly varied surface texture

Brush Powder

Volume

Warm taupe braided chevron weave with fine charcoal linework in close-up

Cricket Fossil

Volume

Deep teal-green woven swatch with vertical braided cords and pointed leaf motifs

Cricket Reed

Volume

Ember Brick

Volume

Black woven ground densely scattered with warm ivory flecks and granular texture

Ember Noir

Volume

Dusty blush-pink woven fabric with fine pale flecks and a softly mottled texture

Ember Powder

Volume

Warm taupe-grey woven ground with scattered ivory and blush pumice flecks

Ember Pumice

Volume

Dense charcoal-slate weave scattered with crisp white flecks

Ember Slate

Volume

Charcoal-grey woven fabric with fine silver and white flecks across its surface

Ember Storm

Volume

Pale flagstone taupe woven fabric with broken horizontal slubs and pebbled texture

Flicker Flagstone

Volume

See the whole collection

Pairs well with

Ember Monochrome 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.

Jaipur Stripe Azur

Lacroix Stravaganza Fabrics

Reflets Sur Le Rhone Vert Riziere

Pêle-Mêle Fabric & Wallpaper

Russet outdoor fabric with fine cream, ochre, charcoal and terracotta chevron stripes

Klaudia Outdoor Russet

Alfresco Indoor Outdoor Fabric

Dense red, turquoise, ochre and cream blooms across a midnight ground

Tahiti Outdoor Midnight

Alfresco Indoor Outdoor Fabric

Cream wallpaper with blue bell flowers, green leaves and trailing botanical branches

Fuchsia Wallpaper Blue/Leaf

Ashdown Wallpaper

Beige wallpaper with fuchsia-red pendant flowers and forest-green leafy sprays

Fuchsia Wallpaper Red/Forest

Ashdown Wallpaper

Marquina Delft

Casablanca Fabrics

Santafiora Berry

Casablanca Fabrics

Teal and coral tropical palms with ochre foliage on a pale ivory ground

Jungle Palms Jungle

Animalia Fabrics

Lemur Jungle

Animalia Fabrics

Swatch of coral and sage chintz floral on warm ivory woven ground

Aragon Chinz

Eco -Friendly Ranges

Cream floral fabric with blush pink, sky blue and beige motifs

Aragon Rosso

Eco -Friendly Ranges

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

Double Silver

Zoffany · #ada9a0

To stand against it

Off-Black

Farrow & Ball · #464749

Other multi fabrics

Across the houses we hold. See all 4,182.

Muted pistachio geometric stars with cream and pale peach angular sections

Stars Recycled Pistachio

Segment

Muted sage, blush peach and wine-red geometric stars with a softly varied surface

Stars Recycled Radicchio

Segment

Black and ivory woven textile with repeating chevrons and fine square grid texture

Central Monochrome

Underground Volii

Cream, teal and dusty rose geometric woven fabric with structured checked motifs

Metropolitan Blossom

Underground Volii

Burnt orange, charcoal and cream geometric grid with softly striated woven texture

Northern Burnt Orange

Underground Volii

Black and ivory woven fabric with repeating nested diamond geometry

Brent Monochrome

Underground Voliii

Black and cream woven geometric check fabric with irregular compact blocks

Eden Monochrome

Underground Voliii

Cream textile with black block bands and ochre vertical bars in a geometric repeat

Northern Biscuit

Underground Voliii

Biscuit, black and ochre woven geometric fabric with repeating angular arrow motifs

Piccadilly Biscuit

Underground Voliii

Fern green geometric fabric with rust, ochre and cream woven angular motifs

Piccadilly Fern

Underground Voliii

Cream and black abstract brushstrokes with scattered ink-like flecks

Vandal Monochrome

Utility

Abstract fabric swatch with blurred apricot, yellow and pale blue colour fields

Halofr Sunrise

Vision Fr