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Shifu Metal
Paperweave Wallpaper
Shifu Metal is a deep charcoal-grey Paperweave wallpaper with a close, tactile surface that reads as softly mottled rather than flat. Its restrained tone gives the wall a calm, subtly dimensional finish.
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About this wallpaper
The colour sits between charcoal and muted olive-grey, with fine lighter threads breaking through the darker ground. A small, irregular crosshatch texture is visible across the surface, creating gentle depth without a distinct printed motif. The low-contrast weave catches the light unevenly, so the finish shifts softly between warm grey and deeper graphite as the angle changes. As a wallpaper from Mark Alexander’s Paperweave collection, it brings a tailored, textural character to the wall while keeping the overall effect quiet.
How to use it
Use Shifu Metal on a study, library or snug wall where its smoky charcoal tone can sit alongside walnut, dark oak, aged metal and linen in warm stone shades. Pair it with directional lighting to reveal the subtle woven variation without brightening the overall mood.
Use this smoky charcoal tone to create a quiet, tailored backdrop for warm timber, aged brass and softly coloured furnishings.
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Pairs well with
Shifu Metal 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.
Grounded Sheer Black Earth
Sheers 1
Mistral Smoke
Misc
Etch Mineral
Marbleous
Cove Charcoal
Belvoir Collection
Cove Haze
Belvoir Collection
Rosee Du Matin Roseau
Cabanon Fabrics
Pergola Shades Crepuscule
Histoires Naturelles Fabrics
Cameron Ebony
Alfresco Indoor Outdoor Weaves
Coronado Dolphin
Alfresco Indoor Outdoor Weaves
Albeck Silver
Albeck
Birch Stripe Silver
Ashmead Block Prints
Ciottoli Platinum
Boratti WALLPAPER
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
Pompeian Grey
Little Greene · #5a5f55
To stand against it
Dusty Lilac
Sanderson · #bdbbc6
Other grey fabrics
Across the houses we hold. See all 7,198.
