Taupe-grey open-grid fabric with repeating darker rectangular woven accents, curled into a strip

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Mark Alexander

Cousu Boulder

Name: Cousu Boulder
Brand: Mark Alexander

Cousu Boulder has a softly muted taupe-grey ground, woven into an airy open grid with small darker rectangular details spaced along the strip. The curled presentation shows the fabric’s narrow, flexible character and subtle tonal variation.

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About this fabric

The warm greige-taupe colouring shifts gently between pale beige, soft grey and deeper brown-grey accents, giving the surface more depth than a flat neutral. Its open, ladder-like weave is clearly visible, with repeated rectangular motifs worked through the centre. The narrow strip curves easily in the image, suggesting a fine, flexible textile rather than a dense upholstery cloth. No composition, width, rub test or performance features were supplied for this exact fabric.

How to use it

Pair Cousu Boulder with chalky whites, limestone, warm grey and natural timber for a quiet, textural window treatment. Its darker woven rectangles can act as a restrained graphic detail against plain curtains or surrounding neutral upholstery.

Use this open, lightweight-looking weave as a refined drapery detail where its darker accents can be seen up close.

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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.

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