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Kara Oat
Istra Fabric
Kara Oat is a pale oat-beige plain weave with a softly muted, greige-leaning character. Its close, even texture is visible across the surface, giving the colourway a quiet tactile depth.
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About this fabric
The finely woven face combines warm oat with a subtle grey cast, rather than reading as a bright or yellow beige. Its small, even weave creates gentle tonal variation as the light moves across the cloth, while the absence of a printed motif keeps the surface visually calm. This is catalogued as a fabric, and no performance features are noted for this colourway. The restrained texture makes the colour feel understated and relaxed without appearing flat.
How to use it
Use Kara Oat to soften a room with warm white, putty and pale timber, or pair it with deeper taupe accents for more definition. Its muted oat tone is especially effective where a neutral needs warmth without strong contrast.
Its soft oat-beige tone and fine weave suit calm upholstery, curtains or layered neutral schemes.
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Kara Ash Rose
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Kara Cobblestone
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Kara Coconut
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Kara Eucalyptus
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Kara French Blue
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Kara Mineral
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Kara Rosemary
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Kara Silver Blue
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Kara Stone
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Pairs well with
Kara Oat 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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Integer Natural
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Eaton Check Flax
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Heritage Prints
Audley Pampas
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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
Hopper Head
Farrow & Ball · #505457
Other beige fabrics
Across the houses we hold. See all 5,031.
