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Matador Lead
Matador Fabric
Matador Lead is a deep lead-grey fabric with a smooth, softly lustrous surface. In the swatch image, the cloth falls into broad, fluid folds that reveal lighter highlights and shaded depth.
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About this fabric
This colourway reads as a dark, muted grey rather than a bright silver, giving it a calm, weighty presence. Its even surface appears soft and velvety, while the folded areas shift subtly between graphite-like shadow and soft grey sheen. The plain ground keeps the focus on the fabric’s tactile finish and tonal movement, with no visible motif or pattern competing for attention.
How to use it
Pair Matador Lead with warm timber, brushed metal or pale stone to balance its cool, deep grey tone. It is particularly effective on a statement sofa, occasional chair or upholstered headboard where the changing light can catch the surface.
Use this deep lead grey on upholstered seating where its smooth surface and subtle sheen can add quiet depth.
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Pairs well with
Matador Lead 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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Belvedere Steel/Silver
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Colour 1 Wallpapers
Waterfall Silk Thundercloud
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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
Wooded Dell
Morris & Co. · #495048
To stand against it
Wild Plum Light
Sanderson · #a25776
Other grey fabrics
Across the houses we hold. See all 7,198.
