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”I love the richness and warmth of shades of spice colours. One of our biggest selling fabrics is the Fez Weave in Cognac (), which could equally have been called something spicy like cinnamon, too. It is a colour that didn’t seem to feature much in decorating, so I added it to my fabrics as I like to use these deep reds, oranges and browns in some of my schemes.

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