Simon Houlding Upholstery
White sheer fabric with fine raised rows and delicate vertical textured ridges Swaffer

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Isla 01 (white)

Sheer Fabric

Isla 01 has a clean white ground with a delicate, regularly repeated texture across its surface. Its fine construction and pale tone give the swatch an airy, light-catching appearance.

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About this fabric

The white face is detailed with tiny raised vertical ridges arranged in orderly horizontal rows, creating a small-scale woven texture. Light catches the relief softly, adding quiet depth while keeping the colourway bright and clear. The overall impression is cool, fresh and lightly tactile rather than dense or heavily patterned. As part of Swaffer’s Sheer collection, Isla 01 is particularly suited to drapery where this subtle surface detail can remain visible.

How to use it

Hang Isla 01 at a window in a calm, light-toned room, pairing its cool white texture with pale timber, chalky walls or softly contrasting natural fabrics.

Use the cool white tone at windows where its fine texture can soften light without adding visual weight.

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Isla 01 (white) 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

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To stand against it

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