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Calobra Grey

Weave Fabric

Calobra Grey combines cool grey and soft cream yarns in a tactile woven design of repeating diamond shapes. Its close, dimensional surface gives the pattern a softly mottled appearance rather than a flat printed finish.

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About this fabric

The weave is built from alternating pale and darker threads, forming nested diamonds that create a measured geometric rhythm across the surface. Small irregularities in the yarns add visible texture, while the cream highlights lift the cooler grey ground. The overall tone is restrained and gently contrasted, with the pattern appearing deeper where the darker threads gather in the diamond outlines. This is a versatile mid-weight-looking fabric visually suited to both upholstery and drapery.

How to use it

Use Calobra Grey on a relaxed sofa, occasional chair or full-length curtains where its cool grey-and-cream colouring can work with pale timber, stone and charcoal accents. Keep surrounding patterns simple so the repeating diamonds provide the room’s main layer of texture.

Use this cool, textured grey weave to bring quiet pattern and tactile depth to seating or window treatments.

Pairs well with

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

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

Worsted

Farrow & Ball · #9b9690

To stand against it

Koi Carp

Zoffany · #9e4f40

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