Close-up of cool dove-grey fabric with fine, closely spaced vertical striations

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

Mark Alexander

Casual Dove

Name: Casual Dove
Brand: Mark Alexander

Casual Dove presents a cool dove-grey surface with delicate vertical striations running continuously through the cloth. Its softly varied lines give the plain colourway a subtle woven depth rather than a flat finish.

cool dove grey plain none relaxed both

Ask Ruth about this fabric See it in your room

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

About this fabric

The image shows a pale, cool grey ground crossed by closely spaced vertical threads, creating a restrained stripe-like texture. Slight changes in light across the fine lines give the fabric gentle tonal movement while keeping the overall appearance quiet and even. No composition, width or rub-test specification is supplied for this colourway, and no performance features are noted.

How to use it

Use Casual Dove to soften a contemporary room with a cool neutral upholstery or curtain treatment. Its fine vertical texture works especially well alongside chalky whites, pale stone and other muted greys.

Use the cool dove-grey tone to bring quiet texture to upholstery, curtains or layered neutral schemes.

Mark Alexander Casual Fabric

More from Casual

The same book, other colourways.

Pale mist-grey and white irregular vertical stripes with a softly woven texture

Bourne Grey Mist

Casual

Muted ocean-blue and ivory vertical stripes with a softly textured woven surface

Bourne Ocean

Casual

Cool dove-grey woven swatch with fine darker chevrons and a lightly textured surface

Breaker Dove

Casual

Pale greige woven fabric with a fine, tactile chevron zigzag

Breaker Pebble

Casual

Soft dove-grey fabric with fine vertical ribbing and subtle tonal striping

Cascade Dove

Casual

Pale sepia-grey fabric with closely spaced vertical ribs and a softly textured surface

Cascade Sepia

Casual

Close-up of dark indigo woven fabric with fine, irregular vertical striations

Casual Indigo

Casual

Pale plaster-beige textile with delicate vertical striations and a softly matte surface

Casual Plaster

Casual

Cool silver-grey textile with fine vertical striations and a softly textured weave

Casual Silverbirch

Casual

Close-up of grey-taupe fabric with tiny linked diamond motifs and a fine woven texture

Cluster Driftwood

Casual

Pale cool-grey textile with a tiny repeating interlocking diamond pattern

Cluster Gris

Casual

Cool gunmetal-grey fabric with a dense miniature diamond-cluster weave

Cluster Gunmetal

Casual

See the whole collection

Pairs well with

Casual Dove 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.

Cool dove-grey wallpaper with irregular ivory branch-like vertical lines

Genki Dove

Japandi Wallpapers

Cool grey fish motifs with stripes, scales and wave marks on a pale ground

Trawler Grey

Land & Sea

Ivory swallows in flight across a cool grey woven fabric ground

Fly Away Away Grey

Marina Fabric

Soft grey botanical fabric with ochre leaf sprays and scrolling stems

Beckett Haze

Belvoir Collection

Pale grey cotton fabric with small repeating dog motifs in brown, cream and black

Rora Danube

Belvoir Collection

Cool dove-grey micro-grid weave with softly flecked taupe threads

Pontus Dove

Aqueous Performance

Charcoal fern fronds and seedheads scattered across a textured linen-coloured fabric ground

Lorelle Charcoal/Linen

Botanica Fabric

Soft blue-grey linen check with taupe stripes on a woven fabric swatch

Lamorna Check Old Blue

Lamorna Chk & Stp

Soft blue-grey wool check with cream and taupe plaid stripes

Kelburn Check Old Blue

Lisle

Brera Nastro Duck Egg

Brera Rigato III Fabrics

Havana Graphite

Havana Fabrics

Pale dove-grey leaf pattern fabric with tonal woven texture and soft repeats

Acacia Dove

Acacia

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

Cobblestone

Zoffany · #8b877e

To stand against it

Woodland Yellow

Sanderson · #bfac60

Other grey fabrics

Across the houses we hold. See all 8,056.

Cool gunmetal-grey sheer with fine irregular striations and a softly slubbed surface

Shadow Gunmetal

Timeless Linen Sheers

Close-up of pale grey mist sheer with fine irregular vertical striations

Breeze Grey Mist

Timeless Wool Sheers

Pale silver-grey sheer textile with a fine, softly textured woven grid

Glimpse Silvershell

Timeless Wool Sheers

Close-up of cool mist-grey sheer fabric with delicate vertical yarn striations

Serenity Grey Mist

Timeless Wool Sheers

Muted cement-grey wool-sheer weave with a soft, subtly vertical surface

Vapour Cement

Timeless Wool Sheers

Pale cool dove-grey sheer showing a faintly vertical, softly textured weave

Vapour Dove

Timeless Wool Sheers

Pale cool-grey sheer with a softly slubbed vertical weave

Whisper Grey Mist

Timeless Wool Sheers

Warm carbon grey fabric with a fine, tightly woven herringbone texture

Array Carbon Grey

Timeless Textures

Close-up of cool cement-grey textile with a fine, pale herringbone weave

Array Cement

Timeless Textures

Pebble-grey woven cushion with tiny pale dashes and softly frayed edge

Boulevard Pebble

Timeless Textures

Close-up of cool French grey micro-weave with softly mottled, tactile texture

Coda French Grey

Timeless Textures

Pale dove-grey textile with fine horizontal crosshatch lines and a softly woven surface

Crosshatch Dove

Timeless Textures