Muted olive-grey metallic wallpaper with fine irregular horizontal grasscloth-style ridges

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Mark Alexander

Arrowroot Wallcovering Metal

Name: Arrowroot Wallcovering Metal
Brand: Mark Alexander

Arrowroot Wallcovering Metal has a muted olive-grey ground with a restrained metallic glint. Fine, irregular horizontal striations give the surface the softly weathered character visible in the swatch.

muted olive metallic textured small smart wallpaper

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About this fabric

This design is catalogued as wallpaper and presents a closely ridged, grasscloth-style surface rather than a printed motif. Its olive-grey tone sits between moss, pewter and softened khaki, while subtle darker lines create gentle horizontal movement. Light catches some of the raised threads, bringing out a quiet metallic shimmer without making the colour feel bright or polished. The tonal variation gives this wallcovering depth while retaining a calm, grounded appearance.

How to use it

Use this cool, muted olive-metallic shade across a feature wall with warm timber, aged brass and natural stone, or let its fine horizontal texture add depth behind a tonal neutral scheme.

A softly metallic olive-grey wallcovering that brings quiet texture and tonal depth to contemporary or natural schemes.

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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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