Taupe-grey wallpaper with fine horizontal lines and scattered pale dashes

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Mark Alexander

Suru Wallcovering Tempest

Suru Wallcovering Tempest is a muted taupe-grey wallpaper with a finely striated ground and small, broken pale marks. Its low-contrast surface reads as quietly layered rather than overtly patterned.

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About this wallpaper

The colourway combines a cool taupe-grey base with closely spaced horizontal lines that give the surface a subtle, woven-looking rhythm. Short pale dashes appear intermittently across the design, adding small flashes of light without disrupting its restrained character. The tonal contrast is gentle, so the pattern becomes more noticeable at close range while the overall wall effect remains calm. With no performance specifications supplied, this description focuses on the visible linear texture and abstract marking of the wallpaper.

How to use it

Pair the softened taupe-grey ground with chalky whites, natural timber and charcoal accents for a balanced, understated room. It would suit a study, hallway or bedroom where the fine horizontal texture can provide depth without a strong graphic statement.

Use this quietly layered taupe-grey wallpaper to bring textural depth to calm, tonal schemes.

Mark Alexander Collage Iii Wallpaper

Specification

Pattern repeat: Vertical
Application: Paste the Wall
Environmental: REACH Compliant, PFAS Free
Roll length: 7.32 Metres (8.0 Yards)
Roll width: 91 cms (35.8 ")
Sample size: 27.5cm x 20.5cm

Specification as published by Mark Alexander. 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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Pairs well with

A pattern needs somewhere for the eye to rest, so these are the plains and textures that sit beside Suru Wallcovering Tempest without fighting it. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.

Softly mottled taupe-grey plain textile with a powdery, low-contrast surface

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Wallcoverings

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Weave

Close-up of muted taupe-grey Basswood sateen with fine, subtle woven texture

Liso Basswood

Liso Sateen

Muted beaver taupe-grey fabric with fine, tightly repeated herringbone texture

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Strathspey

Dolomite taupe, stone and charcoal-grey woven plaid with fine striations

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Misc

Muted taupe shagreen texture with fine pebble-like cells and softly mottled shading

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Hideveganleathers

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Kyri Pumice

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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

Darlington

Coat Paints · #9a9588

To stand against it

Sunlight

Little Greene · #dfc774