Muted blue-grey micro-check weave with cream and taupe flecks in close view

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

Sol Colibri

Name: Sol Colibri
Brand: Zinc Textile

Sol Colibri has a softened blue-grey ground, finely broken up with pale cream, sandy beige and deeper blue-grey threads. Its close texture gives the colourway a quietly mottled, dimensional appearance.

muted blue grey textured 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

Viewed closely, Sol Colibri is a compact woven textile with a tiny, regular check or basket-like structure rather than a large printed motif. The overall tone is cool and restrained, while cream and taupe flecks prevent the blue-grey ground from appearing flat. Its dense-looking, even surface gives the fabric a smart upholstery character and a subtle tactile depth. The small-scale weave should sit comfortably alongside plain linens, timber and softly patterned furnishings.

How to use it

Use this muted blue-grey on an occasional chair, headboard or compact sofa where its fine woven texture can be seen at close range. Balance the cool ground with warm ivory upholstery details, natural oak and taupe accessories.

Pair its cool blue-grey base with warm ivory, pale oak and brushed metal.

Zinc Textile Mercer Fabric

More from Mercer

The same book, other colourways.

Smoky taupe-grey woven fabric with fine vertical striations and heathered texture

Lenny Tungsten

Mercer

Dark Brunello burgundy-brown textile with irregular horizontal slub texture

Mercer Brunello

Mercer

Muted olive-green fabric with fine horizontal slub texture and tonal woven variation

Mercer Hunting

Mercer

Pale ivory textile with fine horizontal woven texture and subtle tonal variation

Mercer Moonbeam

Mercer

Deep blue-grey teal fabric swatch with uneven horizontal woven texture

Mercer Ocean

Mercer

Close-up of cool silver-grey fabric with a fine flecked micro-grid weave

Mercer Silver Grey

Mercer

Close view of silver grey woven textile with fine cream and taupe flecks

Roxy Silver Grey

Mercer

Close-up of warm terracotta woven fabric with cream and rust micro-flecked texture

Sol Brunello

Mercer

Sol Moonbeam

Mercer

Cool silver-grey fine crosshatch weave on a structured dining chair

Sol Silver Grey

Mercer

Sol Tobacco

Mercer

Sol Tungsten

Mercer

See the whole collection

Pairs well with

Sol Colibri 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.

Marmo Chicory

Imperiale

Cream fabric swatch with blue-grey trellis, floral motifs and small bird details

Pashley Blue

Braganza

Cool blue-grey wallpaper with fine ivory leafy vines in a small-scale repeat

Leafberry Wallpaper Old Blue

Small Design W/Papers

Pale blue-grey wallpaper with cream diamond trellis and tiny floral motifs

Pinjara Trellis Blue Clay

Littlemore Wallpapers

Cool blue-grey wallpaper with navy hexagonal outlines and fine white fan lines

Aikyo Coast

Japandi Wallpapers

Pale blue-grey textile with dense light arch motifs in a fine repeating pattern

Daisy Sky Fabric

Misc

Cool blue-grey swatch with pale dotted meandering lines and fine woven texture

Figure Denim

Formation

Cool blue-grey woven fabric with a fine, closely spaced micro-check texture

Kensey Buxton Blue

Kensey

Emett Saltwater

Orly

Blue-grey woven ground with pale beige branching motifs and granular texture

Fable Weaves Galaxy

Fable Weaves

Kami Lago

Kami

Blue-grey woven fabric with repeated cream and taupe diamond motifs

Battersea Spot Colour 7

Battersea

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

Pigeon

Farrow & Ball · #999f93

To stand against it

Rowan Berry

Sanderson · #ba7053

Other blue fabrics

Across the houses we hold. See all 7,979.

Close-up of mottled Klein blue weave with ivory flecks and teal threads

Santa Fe Klein

Geronimo

Close view of muted aviator blue weave with cream flecks and fine crosshatching

Ilchester Aviator

Holland Park

Deep ink-blue fabric with smoky horizontal striations and charcoal mottling

Armando Ink

Jacopo Ii

Cool carbon-blue damask with pale grey scrolling floral motifs and woven texture

Lermitage Carbon Blue

Jet Set

Close view of muted carbon blue fabric with a fine, subtly textured weave

Mamounia Carbon Blue

Jet Set

Pale grey textile with dense carbon-blue, hand-drawn intersecting linear bars

Sereno Carbon Blue

Jet Set

Blue-black fabric swatch with fine vertical striations and a softly matte texture

Etch Ocean

Marbleous

Carbon blue-grey textile with dark undulating woodgrain lines and fine woven texture

Athne Carbon Blue

Parisienne

Deep navy-charcoal textile with slate woodgrain lines across a softly ribbed surface

Athne Twilight

Parisienne

Midnight-blue and charcoal textile with close diagonal stripes and subtle surface texture

Meurice Twilight

Parisienne

Lapis-blue fabric with fine charcoal vertical chevron weave

Lux Lapis

Runway Featuring Rene Gruau

Deep lapis-blue textile swatch with subtle vertical woven striations and soft tonal depth

Martinez Lapis

Runway Featuring Rene Gruau