Brintons
Purely Natural Plaids
Woven Axminster · 8 undyed checks in four natural shades
Purely Natural Plaids is the check in Brintons' undyed collection — eight woven plaids in the natural colours of British fleece, with names that make no secret of where the idea came from. The checks are small and quiet, drawn in tone rather than contrast, so from standing height they read as textured neutral, not tartan on the floor. Woven Axminster, extra heavy domestic, one 4.00m width.
Purely Natural Plaids designs and colours
Four undyed shades run through the range — Pebble, Stone, Grey and Graphite — with the design deciding the scale and weight of the check rather than the colour.
Click any swatch to see it larger.
Beatrice Stone
Bonnibel Stone
Brodie Grey
MacHardy Graphite
MacLennan Grey
Morven Pebble
Nora Stone
Rhona Pebble
A photograph of carpet on a screen is only ever a guide — wool takes colour differently to a monitor, and daylight in your own room changes it again. The samples are on display in the showroom, and we are happy to book one out for you to live with for a few days before you decide.
Specification
| Construction | Woven axminster |
|---|---|
| Pile | 100% wool, undyed |
| Backing | Cotton, jute and natural rubber latex |
| Width | 4.00m (13' 1 ½") — one width only |
| Total pile weight | 1288 g/m2 (37.99 oz/yd2) |
| Tog | 1.73 on Morven Pebble and on Maclennan Grey; tog varies from product to product and measures thermal insulation, not quality |
| Suitability | Extra Heavy Domestic |
| Designs | 8 |
Figures as published by Brintons, and some vary between designs in a range. Pattern repeat, match and the full technical specification are available on request — just ask, in the showroom or on the phone.
From the shop floor
What it’s like to live with
Halls and stairs
Halls and staircases are where this range earns itself: a small tonal check breaks up tracking better than a plain. Repeats run from 18cm to 33cm, so offcuts stay usable. At 18cm every tread carries a full repeat and more, the check stays square to the nosing, and a winder cuts without the pattern jumping.
Which line in the room wins
A plaid is straight lines crossing at right angles, and the eye reads them against the skirting and the door frame. Older houses around Preston are rarely square, so usually the longest sightline wins — the one you see walking in — the check set true to that and allowed to run out against something less noticeable at the back. Decided before cutting.
Worth knowing
Brintons list no formal step at a seam, but that does not mean the lines look after themselves: on Maclennan Grey, where the repeat is 33cm square, a seam a centimetre out is obvious from the doorway. One width only, so a wider room takes a seam; no runner width. Plain suction, nothing bleach-based on undyed wool.
Why it matters who lays it
Woven carpet is fitted differently
We have been selling Axminster from this shop for over sixty-five years, and our fitters are time-served men who work with woven carpet regularly rather than once in a blue moon.
That matters more than it used to. Something like ninety-five per cent of what goes down in British homes today is tufted, so a great many fitters have simply never had much woven carpet through their hands.
A woven carpet asks for things a tufted one does not. A pattern has to be set out on paper before anything is cut. A repeat has to be carried true up a flight of stairs and round a winder. Pile direction has to run the same way through every piece, or a single colour reads as two.
None of it is difficult for someone who does it week in and week out. All of it goes wrong in the hands of someone who does not.
You might also look at
Other Purely Natural ranges
Woven AxminsterPurely Natural AlpineFive undyed designs in three natural shades each.View the range
Woven AxminsterPurely Natural ChromaThe same eight fleece colours woven axminster, in a velvet finish.View the range
Woven AxminsterPurely Natural Flora and FaunaFourteen undyed nature designs, woven axminster.View the rangeSee it
Checks are judged on scale, and scale is what a screen destroys — an 18cm repeat and a 33cm repeat look identical on a phone, and on a floor they are two different carpets. See them on the displays from the distance you will really be looking at them. Then a sample out to lay against your own skirting, or we come and measure up.
See Purely Natural Plaids in your own light
Woven carpet never reads correctly on a screen, and it rarely reads correctly under showroom lighting either. Come and look at the displays, then take a sample home with you — we are happy to book one out so you can live with it for a few days and see it against your own walls, at your own windows, morning and evening. If it is easier, we will bring samples out to you and measure up while we are there.
Book a free home visitVisit the showroom144–146 Brownedge Road, Lostock Hall, Preston PR5 5AE · 01772 336118 · Mon–Sat 10am–5pm · Free parking