Cool shale-grey woven swatch with bright slubs and irregular horizontal texture

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04 Shale

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Earn 04 Shale has a cool shale-grey ground with a richly tactile woven surface. Irregular raised threads create softly broken bands of light and shadow across the swatch.

cool shale grey textured medium relaxed upholstery

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About this fabric

This fabric is catalogued as a textile and presents a substantial-looking, closely woven surface suited to upholstery. Its grey tone shifts between silvery highlights and deeper charcoal flecks, giving the colourway a cool, mineral quality. Short slubby threads form an uneven, almost grid-like texture rather than a smooth plain weave. The restrained contrast keeps the surface quietly expressive while adding visible depth at close range.

How to use it

Use this cool shale-grey colourway on a sofa, armchair or headboard where its textured surface can soften a clean-lined scheme. Pair it with chalky whites, weathered timber and darker graphite accents to draw out its mineral depth.

A cool, tactile grey weave that brings understated depth to upholstered furniture.

Wemyss Earn Fabric

Specification

Composition: 50% Viscose 24% Cotton 16% Polyester 6% Linen 4% Wool
Suitable for: Bedding, Cushions, Drapery, Upholstery
Care: No Wash, No Bleach, No Iron, No Tumble Dry, Dry Clean (Gentle Non Tertrachlorethylene solvent)
Abrasion: 25,000
Fabric type: Textures
Weight (g/sq.m): 335
Width (cm): 138

Specification as published by Wemyss. 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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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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