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Explorer 06
Plain Fabric
Explorer 06 is a striking monochrome textile, combining charcoal, smoky grey and ivory into a richly layered vertical design. Its visibly textured surface gives the pattern a softened, weathered quality rather than a flat printed appearance.
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About this fabric
Catalogued as a Fabric from Swaffer’s Plain collection, Explorer 06 is shown here in a cool charcoal, grey and ivory colourway. Repeated elongated forms run vertically across the cloth, framed by intricate scrolling details and darker, high-contrast outlines. Pale grey interiors interrupt the deep charcoal ground, creating depth and a slightly distressed, timeworn effect. The substantial-looking surface and formal ornament make this colourway particularly suited to statement upholstery.
How to use it
Use Explorer 06 on a feature armchair, headboard or occasional sofa where its cool charcoal-and-ivory contrast can act as the room’s principal pattern. Pair it with soft grey, aged timber and restrained metallic accents to echo its weathered depth without competing with the ornate motif.
A dramatic monochrome textile for statement upholstery, balancing ornate pattern with a weathered, textural finish.
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Acer 18* - Crimson
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Explorer 02
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Pairs well with
A pattern needs somewhere for the eye to rest, so these are the plains and textures that sit beside Explorer 06 without fighting it. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.
Anastacia Charcoal
Colony Wallpaper
Connaught Silk Antoinette
Connaught Silk
Regal Silk Vol 3 Nordic Blue
Regal Silk
Omega Velvet 4 Mercury
Omega Velvet 4
Decouper 3 Wallpaper Black on Black
Decouper 3
Decouper 3 Wallpaper White on Pale Blue
Decouper 3
Semper Paris Grey
Endpapers Wallcoverings
Satin - Plume
Misc
Amoir Libre Argento
Curtain fabrics
Dolce Midnight
Dolce
06 Lavender
Columbia
Emeline Natural
Colony Wallpaper
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
Treron
Farrow & Ball · #808274
To stand against it
Manilla Beige
Sanderson · #f0e0d0
Other grey fabrics
Across the houses we hold. See all 8,056.
