Deep charcoal-brown velvet with subtle green-grey shading and a softly brushed surface

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Mark Alexander

Urbane Mole

Name: Urbane Mole
Brand: Mark Alexander

Urbane Mole is a near-black mole shade with a cool, muted brown-green cast. Across the velvet face, a restrained nap and fine tonal variation soften the darkness, creating depth without a visible pattern.

deep charcoal brown textured none luxe upholstery

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About this fabric

Urbane Mole is catalogued as a Velvet, with a dark, softly napped surface visible across the swatch. The colour sits between charcoal, brown and muted green-grey, with uneven shading that gives the fabric a quietly weathered depth. Fine horizontal and vertical traces catch the light across the face, so the shade shifts subtly rather than reading as a flat black. No performance features are noted for this fabric, so suitability should be assessed against the requirements of the intended upholstery project.

How to use it

Use this deep charcoal-brown colourway on an occasional chair, headboard or sofa where its green-grey cast can anchor pale stone, warm timber and aged metal. Its low-key tonal variation adds interest while keeping the overall scheme restrained.

A deep mole velvet with subtle tonal movement for elegant, low-lit upholstery schemes.

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Urbane Mole 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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