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16 Oat
Orkney Fabric16
Orkney 16 Oat has a pale oat-beige surface with delicate tonal variation across its fine, softly textured weave. The understated finish reads warm and airy rather than stark.
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About this fabric
This colourway is a gentle oat beige, with enough warmth to soften the near-white areas visible across the swatch. Fine intersecting threads form a subtle, linen-like texture, while the softly brushed shading creates quiet depth without a defined printed motif. The delicate-looking cloth has a light, relaxed presence that is particularly well suited to drapery. Its low-contrast surface will bring softness to a window without introducing a strong pattern.
How to use it
Use 16 Oat for full-length curtains in calm, light-filled rooms, pairing its warm oat tone with chalky whites, pale timber and softly weathered neutrals. It also works as a quiet backdrop where stronger furniture shapes or natural textures should remain the focus.
Use this softly textured oat shade for relaxed curtains that keep a room feeling light and calm.
Pairs well with
16 Oat 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.
Nakuru Wide Width Jute
Mirador Wallpaper
Lawn Linen
Clubhouse
Mist Oat
Utility
Hastings Fawn
Belvoir Collection
Lismore Caramel
Belvoir Collection
Yoruba Natural
Amara
Integer Natural
Aqueous Performance
Appledore Check Beige
Appledore
Eaton Check Flax
Eaton Checks and Stripes
Roumier Vanilla
Carlu WALLPAPER
Amalfi Dove
Cecilia Fabrics
Carlisle Fauna Woodland
Heritage Prints
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
Shaded White
Farrow & Ball · #d1cbbd
To stand against it
Marmelo
Farrow & Ball · #a36e4c
Other beige fabrics
Across the houses we hold. See all 5,031.
