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Cambridge Elder
Cambridge Fabric
Cambridge Elder has a muted mushroom-taupe tone that shifts gently between warm beige and soft brown across the folded surface. Its fine, closely spaced weave gives the plain cloth a subtle linear texture rather than a flat finish.
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About this fabric
The swatch shows a quiet taupe colourway with a slightly earthy, greyed depth and delicate tonal variation where the fabric bends. Fine horizontal lines run across the surface, creating a restrained woven texture that is especially visible in the flatter areas of the image. The cloth gathers into soft, fluid folds, suggesting a versatile mid-weight suitable for both upholstery and drapery. No performance features are noted for this fabric.
How to use it
Use Cambridge Elder to bring a calm mushroom-taupe layer to a neutral sitting room, pairing it with warm timber, chalky stone and boucle or ribbed textures. Its soft folds also make it well suited to relaxed curtains where the fine weave can catch the light subtly.
Use this quietly nuanced taupe on relaxed upholstery or softly draped curtains alongside warm stone, oak and textured neutrals.
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Pairs well with
Cambridge Elder 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
Broccoli Brown
Farrow & Ball · #837363
To stand against it
Blackened
Farrow & Ball · #dbdbdb
Other taupe fabrics
Across the houses we hold. See all 4,766.
