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Coordinating fabric

See Asian print. In coordinating fabric with a base color of "natural" should coordinates have a similar natural base or can it have a white base with a color I'm trying to draw out?

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  • 9 years ago
    last modified: 9 years ago

    I would choose the bottom fabric with your favored Asian print. If you are more bold than I, the second from the bottom could work but I'd stick with the solid color bottom one. It would also help if we knew the intent of the fabric. Chairs? Pillows? Drapery?

  • PRO
    9 years ago

    By using a fabric with a white base you are both coordinating with the white in the flowers of the Asian print and enhancing the natural fabric with a brighter selection. Great question - pretty fabric!

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  • PRO
    9 years ago
    It clear on how you're using the fabric to understand what you plan to do with coordinating fabric.

    I'm assuming a few things and can answer in general about pattern matching. Avoid the white. Too stark, unless the Asian print converts to an accent and white dominates.

    Avoid trying to match the neutral, it will potentially look like you tried and missed. Go deeper in neural to make your favored fabric pop.

    If you want patterns to coordinate, smaller scaled geometric checks that read more as a solid at a glance, simple stripes perhaps up to 1 1/2 to 2 inches in the right colors. Thinner stripes would be better.

    Pull the deeper colors from the pattern for solid color compliments. Either the green or orange will help pop,the pattern.

    Off the wall, if the neutral is a brown you could potentially go,toward a chocolate brown and it grey neutral. Perhaps a charcoal.
  • 9 years ago

    While I think I understand what you are asking, the devil is in the detail. Yes, a white ground print with a second color that matches one in the oriental people print could work. This print has white in it; therefore, another print with a white ground has a commonality. However, as M&M points out the scale of the prints can work against harmonizing. If you are speaking of the top two fabrics, they are both bold enough to compete rather than harmonize even though they share the same colors.

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  • 9 years ago
    It's hard to trust what shows on a monitor screen but your charming Asian print appears to have a green cast to the background ; not natural or white. The geometric stripe also has that same overall tone to it and the scale goes well with the much larger print. I don't see the others working .
  • PRO
    9 years ago

    Thank you all. As for more clarification I am only interested in the Asian people fabric as bold curtains for a 10 yr old room, not the other bolts. The background of this fabric is a very light tan (natural, no green undertones). I was thinking of painting her room a crisp white and her furniture a brilliant white. I was thinking a white maltalasse quilt with a bold red/orange chevron throw (see pic). There is a chair cushion that could have another print. Her sheets are white and orange small scale. Her upholstered headboard is similar blue from Asian fabric. I'm including pics from other elements in room. Cool or hot mess?



  • 9 years ago
    I lightened your pick of the fabric. It is very hard for us to determine these colors from a posted picture that is not a true color representation. You need to take a sample of the fabric home with you to make that color match for sure! Best I can do.
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