Close-up of Ikema Tempest’s cool grey taupe weave with fine pale flecks

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Ikema Tempest

Name: Ikema Tempest
Brand: Swaffer

Weave Fabric

Ikema Tempest has a cool mushroom-grey character, softened by fine pale threads running through its tightly woven surface. The close-up reveals a quiet, finely grained texture rather than a printed pattern.

cool grey taupe textured small smart upholstery

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About this fabric

This colourway is built from a dense, small-scale weave in grey taupe, with subtle charcoal and off-white flecks creating gentle depth. Its cool, muted tone reads understated and tailored, while the irregular thread variation keeps the surface from appearing flat. No performance features are noted for this fabric.

How to use it

Use Ikema Tempest on a structured armchair, dining chair or ottoman where its cool grey-taupe tone can sit comfortably with chalk, stone, charcoal and pale timber. Its restrained texture also suits a calm, contemporary scheme that needs quiet visual interest.

A cool, finely textured neutral for tailored upholstery and calm contemporary interiors.

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Ikema Tempest 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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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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