Pale dove-grey textile with faint scrolling motifs and a softly textured woven surface

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Mark Alexander

Cadence Dove

Adagio Fabric

Cadence Dove is a pale, cool dove-grey textile with an understated tonal pattern that emerges gently across the surface. Its fine, softly textured appearance gives the colourway a light, misted depth rather than a flat plain finish.

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About this fabric

The swatch shows delicate scrolling and organic curved motifs in closely related grey tones, creating a pattern that is visible without becoming assertive. The pale dove base reads cool and softly silvery, while the low contrast keeps the overall effect calm and refined. A fine, even surface texture adds quiet visual movement as the light shifts across the cloth. No composition, width, rub-test or additional performance specification is supplied for this fabric.

How to use it

Pair Cadence Dove with chalky whites, pale timber and cool stone for an airy, tonal scheme, or use it to temper darker grey upholstery. Its restrained pattern is well suited to curtains, occasional seating and coordinated soft furnishings.

Use this quiet dove-grey colourway to soften tailored upholstery or bring subtle pattern to full-length curtains.

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

Light Blue

Farrow & Ball · #b5bab4

To stand against it

Stiffkey Blue

Farrow & Ball · #4a5b6b

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