I keep seeing our sofa's upholstery fabric on television programmes - it's "Jacobean tapestry fabric"

Edit: 27 Nov 2022 - this shop calls it Guinevere Medieval Tree of Life heavy jacquard weave (brown Tudor Stuart Elizabethan cotton flat weave) and it's now £47 per metre (yikes!).

Here's a picture of our sofa's upholstery fabric.

Over the last few years I've been noticing it in television programmes such as Jeeves and Wooster, Sherlock Holmes (with Jeremy Brett and co) and on Foyle's War. Possibly it's an ITV / Granada / ITV3 thing. I've been trying to find out what it is.

Anyone watching Casebook of Sherlock Holmes on ITV3 - do you know the name of the upholstery fabric on the sofa? (!)
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Here's what looks like an extremely similar pattern on a chair that Edward Hardwicke's sitting on (as Dr Watson), episode 'The Priory School'.



































It's the same fabric isn't it? 

I have now found out what it's called, from a fabric supplier - "Jacobean Tapestry Fabric, Teastain". I feel I can rest easy now ;)

Illustrative picture showing the full-colour pattern pinched from their website follows... (our version is less colourful)

Here is a clipped bit of an image of some curtains

December 2014 
I also spotted it (below) on a YouTube video of the children's television programme from the early 1980s, The Box of Delights.

August 2015
Just spotted it in a video clip of A room with a view in which the lovely Rupert Graves portrays Freddy Honeychurch, while apparently sitting on one of our chairs ;)

October 2015
Foyle's War, S2E1, Fifty Ships

 

 

November 2015

Spotted it again in Agatha Christie's Marple 'A Murder is Announced' which I am watching now on 22 Nov at 4pm.

February 2016

While watching an episode of the Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: The Boscombe Valley Mystery I spotted that John Watson was making notes while sitting on our sofa's sibling.

August 2022
Gilmore Girls 'A Year in the Life' episode 4 - here Logan is chatting with Rory and keeping himself covered with this coverlet.

July 2023

This tweet, from @MandSHeritage, looked like it might contain the fabric on the chairs and it does. The photoshoot apparently took place in a hotel in Littlehampton.

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