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Acer 53 - Elephant Grey
Plain Fabric
Acer 53 in Elephant Grey is a quietly textured plain fabric from Swaffer’s Plain collection. The close-up shows a cool grey-beige ground enlivened by tiny cream and taupe shifts within the weave.
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About this fabric
The tightly packed plain weave gives this colourway a fine, even texture rather than a visible motif or pattern. Elephant Grey reads as a softened greige: cooler than beige, but warmed by pale oatmeal and taupe threads that create gentle tonal depth. Light catches the small woven loops across the surface, keeping the neutral shade from appearing flat. As a fabric rather than a patterned textile, it offers a restrained, tailored finish for upholstery or drapery.
How to use it
Use Elephant Grey where a room needs a calm, cool neutral with enough oatmeal warmth to sit comfortably beside ivory, stone, timber and muted metallics. Its fine woven texture would suit a tailored sofa, occasional chair or simple full-length curtain.
Its softly mottled greige tone brings a quiet, tailored neutrality to upholstery or window treatments.
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Pairs well with
Acer 53 - Elephant Grey 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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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
Sage
Zoffany · #bdb79d
To stand against it
Bengal Red
Sanderson · #95554c
Other grey fabrics
Across the houses we hold. See all 8,056.
