Warm flax-beige plain weave showing fine crosshatch texture and subtle tonal variation

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Mark Alexander

M650 Flax

The house has discontinued this one. We are keeping the page so the link still works, but we can no longer order it. There are alternatives below, and if you have a cutting or a photograph we will help you match it.

M650 Flax is a softly warm, flax-beige plain weave with a close, finely grained surface. The restrained colour shifts subtly between beige and pale taupe as the woven threads catch the light.

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About this fabric

The image shows a regular, tightly packed weave formed from fine pale and slightly darker threads, creating a delicate crosshatched texture rather than a printed pattern. Its warm flax tone is muted and natural, with enough taupe depth to avoid looking stark or chalky. The even surface reads as a versatile mid-weight textile, suitable for either upholstery or drapery based on its visible handle and construction. It is catalogued as a fabric in the Timeless Plains collection, with no performance features noted.

How to use it

Use M650 Flax to soften a room with warm stone, oatmeal or pale timber finishes; its quiet flax-beige tone works particularly well on relaxed seating, cushions and uncomplicated curtains.

Its softly warm flax tone and fine woven texture bring quiet depth to relaxed upholstery, cushions or full-length curtains.

Mark Alexander Timeless Plains Fabric

Specification

Composition: 54% Viscose 35% Linen 6% Cotton 5% Polyester
Width: 140 cms (55.1 ")
Rub test (Martindale): 50,000 Severe Domestic
Suitable for: Curtains And Drapes, Upholstery
Aftercare: Do Not Bleach, Dry Clean In White Spirit Or Solvent 113, Do Not Tumble Dry, Warm Iron, Do Not Machine Or Hand Wash
Environmental: REACH Compliant, PFAS Free
Sample size: 15.5cm x 15.5cm
Wyzenbeek: 65,000

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

M650 Flax 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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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

Harbour Grey

Zoffany · #beb5a4

To stand against it

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Sanderson · #bb687a