Deep charcoal textile with a fine interlocking chevron weave and lighter grey ridges

Tap the swatch to see it larger. Colours on a screen are a guide, not a match, so come and feel the real cloth.

Zinc Textile

Fontaine Charolite

Name: Fontaine Charolite
Brand: Zinc Textile

Fontaine Charolite has a deep charcoal-grey ground with fine lighter ridges arranged in a tightly repeated, interlocking chevron pattern. Its close texture gives the dark colour subtle movement as the light shifts across the surface.

deep charcoal grey check small smart upholstery

Ask Ruth about this fabric See it in your room

See this fabric on Zinc Textile's own site, then order it through us.

About this fabric

Charolite is shown in a deep charcoal grey, with slender lighter-grey ridges forming a compact, repeated chevron design. The textured weave creates a gently broken surface rather than a flat solid colour, keeping the overall impression restrained and architectural. No composition, width, usage or rub-test data has been supplied for this exact fabric, so suitability should be confirmed against the intended upholstery application.

How to use it

Use this cool, near-black charcoal on a tailored sofa, headboard or occasional chair where the small chevron provides quiet pattern without lightening the scheme. Pair it with pale grey, chalky white or warm timber to bring out the weave’s subtle tonal contrast.

A deep charcoal chevron weave that brings subtle pattern and texture to upholstered furniture.

Zinc Textile Fontaine Fabric

More from Fontaine

The same book, other colourways.

Deep brown-charcoal plain weave with subtle horizontal striations and soft tonal variation

Allegra Charolite

Fontaine

Close-up of warm putty taupe fabric with a subtle plain woven texture

Allegra Putty

Fontaine

Close-up of warm tobacco taupe fabric with a subtle fine crosshatch weave

Allegra Tobacco

Fontaine

Cool pearl-grey woven fabric with a small interlocking diagonal geometric pattern

Fontaine Mercury

Fontaine

Cool storm-grey textile with a tightly repeated, softly shaded herringbone weave

Fontaine Storm

Fontaine

Close-up of softly textured putty taupe fabric with a fine crosshatched weave

Nico Putty

Fontaine

Close-up of warm tobacco taupe fabric with a fine, pebbled woven texture

Rori Tobacco

Fontaine

Close-up of muted putty taupe fabric with a fine, even woven texture

Shai Putty

Fontaine

See the whole collection

Pairs well with

A pattern needs somewhere for the eye to rest, so these are the plains and textures that sit beside Fontaine Charolite without fighting it. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.

Deep charcoal plain fabric swatch with a smooth, matte finish

Alaska Gunmetal

Alaska Collection

Dark charcoal grey plain weave fabric with a fine textured surface

Bronte Charcoal

Darwin Collection

Deep charcoal grey fabric with a softly mottled, subtly tonal woven surface

Alvar Charcoal

Alvar 2

Deep charcoal woven textile with pale flecks and a tiny broken zigzag texture

Malone Charcoal

Burlington

Close-up of a finely woven charcoal grey textile with subtle speckled texture

Marldon Charcoal

Albeck

Cara Slate

Cara Fabrics

Dark charcoal grey plain woven fabric swatch with a fine matte texture

Naples FR Silver

Alderney

Dark charcoal grey woven fabric with subtle heathered texture

Monza Charcoal

Arezzo

Charcoal Jet wallpaper with fine silver-grey horizontal striations and woven-look texture

Seri Wide Width Jet

Colour 3 Wallpapers

Deep charcoal-grey fabric with a fine crosshatched woven texture and subtle graphite variation

Mineral Eclipse

Mineral

Close-up of dark charcoal grey plain woven fabric with a tight textured surface

Bohemian Ash

Bohemian

Close-up of a deep charcoal grey plain woven fabric with a subtle mottled texture

Camden Lead

Camden

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

Burn Black Light

Sanderson · #3b3b3d

To stand against it

Quaker Drab

Sanderson · #a19ea5

Other grey fabrics

Across the houses we hold. See all 8,056.

Close view of cool silver-grey fabric with a fine, even basket weave

Wavelet Silver Grey

Endless Summer

Pale silver-grey Wavelet fabric with a fine, softly checked woven texture

Wavelet Spacedust

Endless Summer

Cool grey Wavelet textile with charcoal crosshatch and fine salt-and-pepper weave

Wavelet Tungsten

Endless Summer

Enzo Aviator

Enzo

Pale dove-grey mottled textile with soft cloudy movement and subtle sheen

Enzo Dove

Enzo

Cool mineral-grey fabric with fine irregular horizontal striations and tactile woven texture

Dylan Mineral

Form

Silver-grey textile with fine, irregular horizontal striations and a softly woven surface

Dylan Silver Grey

Form

Cool mineral-grey textile with a dense broken geometric weave and softly mottled depth

Serra Mineral

Form

Close-up of cool mineral-grey fabric with a fine mottled charcoal and pale woven texture

Sol Mineral

Form

Cool grey textile with rust-orange, charcoal and pale blue painterly horizontal bands

Heavens Break Linen

Geronimo

Cool mineral grey woven fabric with irregular charcoal and white horizontal stripes

Poncho Stripe Mineral

Geronimo

Mineral grey geometric blocks with raised nubby weave and stitched-looking dark edges

Saddle Blanket Mineral

Geronimo