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Close view of muted taupe-grey linen plain weave with soft diagonal folds

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Danube Plain Truffle

Danube Fabric

Danube Plain Truffle is a softly muted taupe-grey linen with a fine plain weave and gentle diagonal folds visible across the swatch. Its cool neutral tone shifts subtly between pale stone and deeper mushroom grey as the light moves over the cloth.

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About this fabric

Woven from 100% linen, this 137cm-wide fabric is supplied for curtains and has a naturally fine, lightly crosshatched surface. The plain weave remains understated, while the swatch’s fluid folds create soft bands of shadow that deepen the truffle tone without making it look heavy. Its dry-clean care suits made-to-measure curtain treatments where the relaxed character of linen can remain visible. This colourway sits comfortably between cool grey and warm taupe, giving it a calm, quietly layered appearance.

How to use it

Use Danube Plain Truffle for full-length curtains in a room of chalky whites, pale timber and brushed metal, or pair it with deeper mushroom and charcoal accents to draw out the shade’s softly shifting depth.

Use this cool, softly shaded taupe-grey linen for relaxed curtains where natural texture and gentle movement are key.

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Danube Plain Truffle 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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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

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To stand against it

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