Smoky taupe-grey wallcovering with cloudy horizontal bands and fine linear texture

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Zinc Textile

Caractre Wallcovering Smoke

Name: Caractre Wallcovering Smoke
Brand: Zinc Textile

Caractre Wallcovering Smoke has a cool, smoky taupe-grey appearance, with pale and deeper grey passages drifting across its softly textured surface. Fine horizontal lines give the wallcovering a gently brushed, atmospheric character.

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About this fabric

This colourway combines a muted taupe cast with layered grey shading, creating a depth that shifts between silvery light and soft charcoal. Broad, blurred horizontal areas are visible across the surface rather than a defined repeating motif. The fine linear texture adds a subtle directional grain, while the low-contrast tonal variation keeps the overall effect calm and understated. As a wallcovering, Smoke brings a weathered, mineral quality to the wall without introducing a strong decorative pattern.

How to use it

Use Smoke across a study, bedroom or understated living space where its cool taupe-grey tone can sit alongside stone, pale timber and charcoal upholstery. Pair it with warm lighting to draw out the softer beige notes within the otherwise smoky surface.

A cool smoky taupe-grey wallcovering with softly weathered tonal movement and a fine horizontal texture.

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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.

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