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Acanthus Tapestry Grape/Heather
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Acanthus Tapestry Grape/Heather layers curling grape-purple acanthus leaves and rounded flower heads across a smoky olive-grey ground. The subdued palette gives the dense botanical design a cool, aged depth.
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About this fabric
The swatch shows scrolling acanthus leaves and rounded flower heads in layered grape, plum and heather-purple, set against olive-grey ground with dark charcoal linework. At 532 gsm, this is a substantial fabric suited to upholstery, with a 138 cm usable width for broad upholstered panels. Its 85 cm vertical and 66 cm horizontal repeats keep the interlocking foliage prominent across a chair, headboard or sofa. The stated 85 threads per cm corresponds to the close, finely textured tapestry-like surface visible in the swatch.
How to use it
Use this cool, muted grape-and-olive colourway on a statement armchair, footstool or sofa, then pick up its olive-grey ground with plain cushions and painted timber nearby.
Use this substantial tapestry-style floral on statement upholstery where its muted grape and olive palette can take centre stage.
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A pattern needs somewhere for the eye to rest, so these are the plains and textures that sit beside Acanthus Tapestry Grape/Heather without fighting it. 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
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To stand against it
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