Close-up of plain slate blue-grey fabric with a fine vertical woven texture

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Zinc Textile

Tokara Slate

Name: Tokara Slate
Brand: Zinc Textile

Tokara Slate is a cool, deep blue-grey textile with a restrained, almost charcoal-like depth. Its plain face is enlivened by a subtle vertical grain that becomes more apparent across the swatch.

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About this fabric

This colourway is catalogued as a fabric from Zinc Textile’s Endless Summer collection, with no performance features noted. The slate tone sits between blue and grey, reading calm and cool rather than warm or richly saturated. A very fine, even texture gives the surface quiet movement without introducing a visible motif or pattern. In changing light, the close weave softens the darkness of the shade and adds a gently tailored finish.

How to use it

Use Tokara Slate to bring composed blue-grey depth to a contemporary sofa, headboard or pair of curtains. It works especially well with chalky whites, pale timber and brushed metal, where its cool tone remains refined rather than stark.

A cool, quietly textured slate tone for tailored upholstery, curtains or blinds.

Zinc Textile Endless Summer Fabric

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Tokara Slate 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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