Close-up of muted steel-blue fabric with a fine, subtly irregular woven texture

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Linwood

Vara Steel Blue

Name: Vara Steel Blue
Brand: Linwood

Vara Fabric

Vara Steel Blue has a cool, muted blue-grey tone with a close, subtly irregular woven surface. Its understated colour and visible horizontal texture give the plain fabric quiet depth rather than a flat block of colour.

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About this fabric

Designed for fixed upholstery, Vara Steel Blue is graded for Contract and General Domestic use. The 137cm-wide fabric is woven from 17% viscose, 23% recycled polyester, 44% acrylic, 7% linen and 9% polyester. In this colourway, steel blue is softened by grey undertones and fine tonal variation across the weave, creating a tailored but tactile finish. After-care is Dry Clean.

How to use it

Use Vara Steel Blue on a structured sofa, dining chair or headboard where its cool blue-grey tone can anchor warmer timber, brushed metal and soft neutral upholstery. Pair it with chalk, stone or charcoal accents to emphasise the weave’s quiet tonal depth.

A cool, finely textured steel-blue weave for tailored upholstery with a calm, contemporary character.

Linwood Vara Fabric

Specification

Aftercare: Dry Clean
Composition: 17% Viscose, 23% Recycled Polyester, 44% Acrylic, 7% Linen, 9% Polyester
Suitable for: Fixed Upholstery
Upholstery grade: Contract, General Domestic
Width (approx): 137cm

Specification as published by Linwood. We will confirm the current details with them before you order.

Made up by us

Every metre we order is cut, sewn and fitted in our own Heybridge workshop, with Simon over every stage. Reupholstery, bespoke pieces, curtains, blinds and headboards.

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Vara Steel Blue 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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