Overstory fabric collection House of Hackney

Overstory fabric by House of Hackney: trees, wavy lines and lichen

With Overstory fabric by House of Hackney, you bring the forest indoors, from the treetops to the moss on the ground. Every pattern starts from natural forms and stays within an earthy palette of green, ochre, brown and blue. Yet their visual language varies widely. You'll find an engraving-style landscape, a rippling play of lines on velvet and a dark, all-over motif reminiscent of lichen. So within one fabric collection, you can choose between light and airy or deep and enveloping.

Patterns in the Overstory fabric collection

Dendrophilia Cotton fabric shows large trees built up from fine hatched lines, each in its own colour: ochre, light green, blue, olive, dark green and brown. Tufts of grass grow between the trunks and small red birds fly between them, on an off-white ground with plenty of white space. Xylem fabric is more abstract. Vertical wavy lines in brown, ochre, black and beige repeat closely together, much like a flame stitch. On a round bench with matching fringed cushions, it becomes a single surface in motion. Lichen fabric covers the velvet completely with curled, lobed shapes in dark green, olive and sage green, with pale yellow accents on an almost black ground. The marbled transitions give the motif a painterly quality. Trametes fabric and Heartwood Cotton fabric complete the range.

Combining Overstory fabric in your interior

Because the patterns share the same earthy palette, you can use them side by side. Let Lichen form the dark base on an armchair or cushion, and use Dendrophilia Cotton as a curtain to add light and air. Xylem links the two: the ochre and brown of its wavy lines reappear in the trees, while the black ties in with the dark ground of Lichen. With House of Hackney fabric, you can create a room that ranges from open clearings to deep undergrowth.