Muted olive-grey wallpaper with a fine taupe crosshatched weave

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Mark Alexander

Shifu Heath

Name: Shifu Heath
Brand: Mark Alexander

Shifu Heath has a muted olive-grey tone, softened by fine beige and charcoal threads across the surface. Its close, linen-like grid gives the colour a gently weathered depth rather than a flat finish.

muted olive grey textured small relaxed wallpaper

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About this fabric

The swatch shows a tightly drawn crosshatch of horizontal and vertical lines, creating the visual character of woven cloth on this wallpaper. Olive-grey forms the dominant ground, while pale taupe threads and darker flecks subtly break up the surface. The restrained contrast keeps the pattern quiet at a distance, with more intricate texture becoming visible close up. This is a considered choice for walls where tonal texture is more important than a strong graphic motif.

How to use it

Use Shifu Heath to wrap a room in a calm, grounded atmosphere, particularly alongside warm timber, aged stone and natural linen. Its cool olive-grey cast also works as a gentle counterpoint to cream upholstery and darker earthy accents.

A softly weathered olive-grey ground that brings quiet woven depth to walls.

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Shifu Heath 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.

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