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53 Steel
Orkney Fabric53
Orkney 53 Steel is a cool grey textile with a softly brushed, finely striated surface. Its steel tone shifts gently between pale silver-grey and deeper charcoal marks across the cloth.
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About this fabric
The close-up shows a fine woven texture with narrow, directional lines and softly blurred tonal variation rather than a defined motif. Steel grey forms the base, while darker smoky patches add depth and prevent the surface from appearing flat. The subtle surface sheen catches the light delicately, giving the cloth a calm, polished appearance. With no additional performance or composition specification supplied, its fine, fluid-looking construction makes it best suited to drapery.
How to use it
Use 53 Steel for full-length curtains or relaxed Roman blinds where its cool grey tone can complement white, charcoal and pale timber. Keep surrounding textures understated so the fabric’s quiet tonal shifts remain visible.
A cool, finely textured steel grey with subtle tonal movement for understated curtains and blinds.
Pairs well with
53 Steel 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
Elder Bark
Sanderson · #949492
To stand against it
Vermeer Yellow
Zoffany · #ddc379
Other grey fabrics
Across the houses we hold. See all 8,056.
