Deep ink-blue velvet with a softly brushed nap and subtle tonal variation

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Mark Alexander

Madison Ink

Name: Madison Ink
Brand: Mark Alexander

Madison Ink is a near-black navy velvet with a cool, deeply saturated appearance. Its plain surface shows subtle tonal movement as the nap catches the light.

deep ink navy plain none luxe upholstery

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About this fabric

Madison Ink is catalogued as a velvet in Mark Alexander’s Timeless Velvets collection. The colour sits between deep navy and softened black, giving the swatch a cool, inky depth rather than a bright blue cast. A short, softly brushed nap creates delicate vertical shifts across the otherwise plain surface, adding dimension without a visible motif. No performance features are noted in the supplied specification data.

How to use it

Use this cool ink-navy velvet on a statement armchair, sofa or dining seat where its near-black depth can anchor pale timber, warm metallics and softly contrasting neutral upholstery.

The deep ink-navy tone and softly shifting velvet nap bring a composed, luxurious depth to upholstered seating.

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Madison Ink 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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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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