Deep chocolate-brown plain fabric with a barely visible, softly textured surface

Tap the swatch to see it larger. Colours on a screen are a guide, not a match, so come and feel the real cloth.

Lelievre

Ideal - Chocolat

Name: Ideal - Chocolat
Brand: Lelievre
SKU: 5070-06

Ideal in Chocolat presents as a deep, warm chocolate brown with an almost uninterrupted plain surface. Its softly muted appearance is lifted by very subtle textural variation rather than a visible motif.

deep chocolate brown plain none smart upholstery

Ask Ruth about this fabric See it in your room

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

About this fabric

This dark brown colourway reads warmer than black, with an espresso-like depth that remains distinctly brown in the swatch image. The surface appears dense and softly textured, with very little sheen and no discernible printed or woven pattern. Its restrained finish makes the colour the defining feature, giving the fabric a calm, enveloping presence on upholstery. No composition, width or performance specification was supplied for this listing.

How to use it

Use Ideal in Chocolat on a tailored chair, sofa or headboard when a deep warm brown is needed to anchor lighter stone, ivory or natural-toned furnishings. Its low sheen keeps the result composed rather than glossy.

A dark, low-sheen chocolate brown that gives upholstered pieces a quietly substantial presence.

Lelievre Escales Lointaines Fabric

More from Escales Lointaines

The same book, other colourways.

Soft white textile with pale grey irregular horizontal woven lines

Solstice - Blanc

Escales Lointaines

Pale ivory fabric with softly irregular beige horizontal stripes and a fine woven texture

Solstice - Naturel

Escales Lointaines

Pale straw-beige Solstice textile with fine, irregular horizontal woven lines

Solstice - Rafia

Escales Lointaines

Warm camel textile with a tightly pebbled, irregular woven surface

Ideal - Camel

Escales Lointaines

Pale warm greige textile with a barely visible fine woven grain

Ideal - Savane

Escales Lointaines

Ideal - Vieux Rose

Escales Lointaines

Muted terracotta-red fabric with a fine, closely pebbled woven texture

Ideal - Tomette

Escales Lointaines

Burnt terracotta textile with a dense, finely pebbled all-over surface

Ideal - Terracotta

Escales Lointaines

Ideal - Gentiane

Escales Lointaines

Close-up of muted golden chartreuse fabric with a fine, softly mottled weave

Ideal - Chartreuse

Escales Lointaines

Close-up of dark cypress-green fabric with a finely stippled woven texture

Ideal - Cypres

Escales Lointaines

Close-up of deep muted sage green fabric with a fine, even woven texture

Ideal - Sauge

Escales Lointaines

See the whole collection

Pairs well with

Ideal - Chocolat 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.

Close-up of small chocolate brown geometric cotton fabric with russet and tan accents

Romilly Chocolate

Romilly

Dark chocolate-brown damask fabric swatch with subtle tone-on-tone pattern

Bordeaux Plain Truffle

Eco -Friendly Ranges

Chocolate brown and ivory woven checkerboard with gently irregular square edges

Blenets Check Chocolate

Harlequin x Henry Holland Fabrics

Chocolate brown woven ground with pale contour-like arcs in clustered organic motifs

Bonseki Chocolate

Harlequin x Henry Holland Weaves

Orissa Silk Nutmeg

Orissa Silk

Dense willow branches in mint, sage and burgundy on a bitter chocolate-brown ground

Willow Boughs Bitter Chocolate

Queen Square Wallpapers

Ashby Stripe Chocolate

Palazzo Collection Fabrics

Deep chocolate-brown upholstery fabric with a fine, tightly woven herringbone texture

Chocolate - 2013/12

Misc

Chocolate-brown woven fabric with closely spaced tan, undulating scroll lines

Scroll Dark Chocolate

Heir

Chocolate brown patchwork textile with rust, taupe and blue-grey vertical striations

Sekani Chocolate

Otillo

Mole-brown floral woven fabric with pale taupe trailing stems and leaves

Altamira Mole

Eden Collection

Warm cocoa-brown fabric with dense small beige scattered motifs

Estrada Mole

Eden Collection

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

Carbon

Sanderson · #36353b

To stand against it

Russet

Zoffany · #a36860

Other brown fabrics

Across the houses we hold. See all 2,272.

Close-up of russet brown upholstery weave with dusty rose geometric flecks

Trinidad - Vieux Rose

Îles du Vent

Close-up of warm moka-brown fabric with a dense, nubby woven texture

Trinidad - Moka

Îles du Vent

Bronze-brown woven swatch with dense rows of fine vertical textured marks

Antigua - Bronze

Îles du Vent

Warm bronze linked-oval lattice woven across a softly ivory textile ground

Sombrero - Bronze

Îles du Vent

Warm Havane brown fabric with dense ochre-flecked woven texture

Saba - Havane

Îles du Vent

Deep Ebene brown fabric with subtle horizontal striations and a softly mottled weave

Helios - Ebene

Misc

Warm cognac-brown fabric with a softly brushed nap and fine horizontal texture

Helios - Cognac

Misc

Warm camel-brown fabric swatch with pale raised braided loops in vertical rows

Tapis Amure Camel

Îles du Vent

Warm Fauve brown textile with dense charcoal, irregular vertical wave-like stripes

Sukkari - Fauve

Contrée Sauvage

Deep acajou-brown textile with black rippling organic motifs and textured woven surface

Sukkari - Acajou

Contrée Sauvage

Warm bark brown woven ground with charcoal fan-shaped botanical sprays

Dattier - Ecorce

Contrée Sauvage

Aubergine-brown textile with repeating copper Art Deco fan motifs and fine woven texture

Dattier - Brugnon

Contrée Sauvage