Muted olive velvet with directional pile, soft folds and a subtle green-gold sheen

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Zoffany

Cotton Velvet Performance Olive

Luxury Plains VelvetZOF0227-21

Cotton Velvet Performance Olive is a muted, earthy olive velvet with a softly changing surface. The close-up shows broad folds catching the light in pale olive highlights against deeper khaki-green shadow.

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About this fabric

This plain velvet has no pattern repeat, allowing its colour and pile to remain the focus. In the image, the olive tone reads warm and subdued, with a green-gold cast that becomes lighter along the raised folds and deeper in the recessed areas. At 420 gsm and 144 cm usable width, it has the visual weight expected of an upholstery velvet. The fine construction is specified at 71 threads per centimetre, while the short, even pile gives the surface a quiet, dense texture.

How to use it

Use this olive colourway on a statement armchair, sofa or footstool where its mellow green depth can sit alongside walnut, aged brass, warm neutrals and darker earthy tones. Its directional sheen is especially effective on curved upholstery, where the folds reveal subtle shifts from khaki shadow to soft olive light.

A softly lustrous olive velvet whose directional pile brings depth and gentle tonal variation to upholstered seating.

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

Dibber

Farrow & Ball · #7e775b

To stand against it

Starling

Sanderson · #b9b0a9

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