Cool grey Athne fabric with wavering vertical striations and pale rubbed highlights

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Zinc Textile

Athne Tungsten

Name: Athne Tungsten
Brand: Zinc Textile

Athne Tungsten brings a cool, mineral grey ground to an abstract vertical design. Pale, uneven tracery breaks through the darker field, while the close weave gives the surface a quietly tactile, lightly reflective finish.

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About this fabric

The visible pattern is built from wavering vertical channels, narrow ripples and broader clouded marks, creating a fluid, almost weathered rhythm across the cloth. In this Tungsten colourway, the graphite-grey base keeps the design restrained and cool, while irregular pale grey lines catch the light without becoming bright or high-contrast. A fine horizontal woven grain can be seen beneath the larger striations, adding subtle surface depth. It is catalogued as Fabric; no composition, width or performance specifications are supplied, so no technical claims are made here.

How to use it

Use Athne Tungsten where a cool graphite backdrop and softly contrasting pale movement can balance warm timber, brushed metal or chalky neutral furnishings.

Pair the cool graphite ground and pale tracery with timber, stone or softly coloured upholstery for a composed, contemporary scheme.

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