Simon Houlding Upholstery
Warm bison-brown and ivory woven fabric with repeating diamond motifs and tactile ridges Swaffer

Tap the swatch to see it larger. Colours on a screen are a guide, not a match, so come and feel the real cloth.

Swaffer

Calobra Bison

Weave Fabric

Calobra Bison combines warm bison-brown yarns with an ivory ground in a tightly repeated diamond design. Its pronounced woven texture gives the colourway a tactile, crafted character.

warm bison browngeometricmediumsmartupholstery
Ask Ruth about this fabric See it in your room

Your board

0 fabrics

See this fabric on Swaffer's own site, then order it through us.

About this fabric

The pattern is formed from nested diamonds and zigzag lines, with small irregularities in the yarn adding depth across the surface. Bison brown reads as a warm, earthy shade here, softened by the light ivory threads that pick out each geometric repeat. The close, substantial-looking weave makes this colourway particularly convincing for upholstery, although no composition, width, rub test or performance specification has been supplied.

How to use it

Pair Calobra Bison with warm timber, natural leather and quiet ivory upholstery to balance its rhythmic geometry. Its earthy brown tone also works well as a grounding accent on a reading chair, bench or upholstered headboard.

Use this warm brown-and-ivory weave to bring patterned texture to an upholstered chair, headboard or sofa.

SwafferWeaveFabric

More from Weave

The same book, other colourways.

Warm oat fabric with muted matcha threads in a raised broken-chevron geometric weave

Calobra Matcha

Weave
Warm ivory woven fabric with raised diamond and chevron texture

Calobra Jasmine

Weave
Ink-blue and cream woven fabric with tactile interlocking diamond motifs

Calobra Ink

Weave
Cool grey and cream woven fabric with repeating textured diamond motifs

Calobra Grey

Weave
Pale elephant-grey textile with raised diagonal chevron lines and a softly nubby weave

Calobra Elephant Grey

Weave
Warm chestnut and ivory woven textile with repeating concentric diamond motifs

Calobra Chestnut

Weave
Pale silver-greige woven textile with raised chevrons and linked diamond texture

Calobra Argent

Weave
Ivory woven fabric with narrow sage-green vertical ticking stripes and tactile texture

Romo Ticking Sap

Weave
Muted sage and cream ticking stripes in a finely textured woven fabric

Romo Ticking Sage

Weave
Warm red and ivory woven ticking with narrow vertical stripes and slubby texture

Romo Ticking Red

Weave
Cream woven fabric with narrow dusty-pink vertical ticking stripes and tactile texture

Romo Ticking Pink

Weave
Warm cream textile with fine vertical herb-taupe ticking stripes and woven texture

Romo Ticking Herb

Weave
See the whole collection

Pairs well with

A pattern needs somewhere for the eye to rest, so these are the plains and textures that sit beside Calobra Bison without fighting it. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.

Deep bark-brown plain fabric swatch with a smooth matte surface

Alaska Bark

Alaska Collection
Close-up of a deep espresso-brown plain woven fabric with a smooth matte surface.

Alaska Espresso

Alaska Collection
Deep espresso-brown plain weave with fine crosshatch texture and muted plum warmth

Albany Espresso

Albany and Moray
Close-up of deep charcoal-brown woven fabric with fine vertical striations and tonal flecks

Moray Ebony

Albany and Moray
Warm biscuit-brown plain-woven fabric with a soft textured surface

Mylo Biscuit

Cassian P/Bk
Warm clay-brown plain velvet with a soft brushed sheen

Cosima Clay

Cosima Velvet II
Brera Lino FR Walnut fabric

Brera Lino FR Walnut

Brera Lino FR
Brienz Cocoa fabric

Brienz Cocoa

Lugano Plain Fabrics
Draped cocoa brown plain-woven fabric with soft sheen and dark folds

Alchemy Cocoa

Alchemy
Warm sandy taupe plain woven linen-look fabric swatch

Naples FR Linen

Alderney
Warm crumb-brown plain weave showing a fine, subtly crosshatched textile surface

Allegra Crumb

Allegra
Charcoal-brown Osamu Treacle swatch with irregular black woven grid lines

Osamu Treacle

Colour 3 Fabrics

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

Sulking Room Pink

Farrow & Ball · #a08480

To stand against it

Pointing

Farrow & Ball · #f3efe3

Other brown fabrics

Across the houses we hold. See all 2,272.

Butterscotch jacquard curtain with black leopard spots and softly ridged folds

WILD CARD Jacquard Curtain - Butterscotch

curtain
Close-up cocoa and ivory zebra-face stripes in an EQUUS wallpaper design

EQUUS Wallpaper - Cocoa

wallpaper
Tobacco wallpaper with oversized tropical flowers, palms and dark leafy silhouettes

LIMERENCE Wallpaper - Tobacco

wallpaper
Butterscotch jacquard with dense black and brown animal markings and woven texture

WILD CARD Jacquard - Butterscotch

fabric
Warm tobacco velvet with white cranes, dark willow branches and pale landscape accents

ZEUS Velvet - Tobacco

fabric
Ochre-bronze velvet with dark teal flowers and curling botanical stems

OPIA Velvet - Bronze

fabric
Bronze velvet with magenta, blue and ivory botanical flowers on twisting dark stems

ARTEMIS Velvet - Bronze

fabric
Carob wallpaper showing pale cranes, pink blossom and cascading foliage on chocolate brown

ZEUS Wallpaper - Carob

wallpaper
Bronze ochre wallpaper with pink, blue and cream botanical flowers and curling branches

ARTEMIS Wallpaper - Bronze

wallpaper
Warm walnut-brown woven fabric with fine golden flecks and dense texture

Acer 30* - Walnut

Plain
Close-up of warm chestnut-brown plain fabric with a dense basket-like weave

Acer 29* - Chestnut

Plain
Close-up of warm umber-brown tight weave with copper and olive flecks

Acer 28* - Umber

Plain

We use necessary cookies to make the site work. With your consent we also use analytics and load embedded maps and reviews. Read our cookie policy.