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

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Calobra Ink

Calobra Ink is a cool, high-contrast woven textile combining deep ink-blue yarns with a soft cream ground. Its close-set diamond pattern gives the surface a strongly graphic rhythm, while the irregular yarn texture keeps the design from looking flat.

deep ink blue and cream geometric medium smart upholstery

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About this fabric

The fabric is patterned with interlocking diamonds and angled zigzags, creating a repeating geometric structure across the swatch. Ink-blue and charcoal-like threads sit against cream, producing a crisp tonal contrast that reads cooler and deeper in the denser parts of the weave. Visible variation in the yarns gives the surface a tactile, gently nubby character rather than a smooth printed finish. No performance features or further specification data are noted for this fabric.

How to use it

Pair Calobra Ink with pale timber, chalky walls and quiet cream upholstery for a clean coastal feel, or use it on a statement chair where the dark blue geometry can provide sharper definition.

Use this cool ink-and-cream geometric weave to bring crisp contrast and tactile depth to upholstered seating.

Swaffer Weave Fabric

Specification

Suitable for: curtains, blinds and upholstery
Colourways: 11

Specification as published by Swaffer. We will confirm the current details with them before you order.

Made up by us

Every metre we order is cut, sewn and fitted in our own Heybridge workshop, with Simon over every stage. Reupholstery, bespoke pieces, curtains, blinds and headboards.

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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 Calobra Ink without fighting it. 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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