Muted olive-brown velvet with subtle horizontal nap shading across the swatch

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Mark Alexander

Urbane Jute

Name: Urbane Jute
Brand: Mark Alexander

Urbane Jute is a plain velvet in a deep, muted olive-brown shade. Its softly shifting surface gives the swatch understated tonal depth without a visible motif.

muted olive brown plain none smart upholstery

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About this fabric

Catalogued as Velvet, Urbane Jute has a close, softly napped surface that catches the light in subtle bands across the olive-brown ground. The colour sits between earthy olive and warm brown, giving it a grounded, quietly enveloping character. There is no printed or woven pattern visible, allowing the pile’s gentle shading to provide the visual interest. Its substantial velvet appearance makes it particularly suited to upholstered furniture.

How to use it

Use this olive-brown colourway on a sculptural armchair, sofa or headboard where its subdued warmth can anchor cream, stone and aged timber. Pair it with brushed metal or darker brown accents to draw out the velvet’s softly shaded depth.

Use this muted olive-brown velvet to bring softly shaded depth to tailored upholstery and richly layered rooms.

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Pairs well with

Urbane Jute 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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