Harlequin's Signature collection does something quietly ambitious: it takes the brand's most cherished designs and reworks them twice over, once as wallpaper at a new scale, once as fabric in a new texture. The wallpaper side introduces super wide width murals, Flores, Grounded and Minako, for the first time in the brand's history. The fabric side leans the other way entirely, most of it built from fine embroidery rather than print, so a pattern that looks painterly on the swatch card turns out, up close, to be made from thousands of individual stitches. Together they are meant to dress a whole room from the same coordinated archive, walls and windows both.
Wallpaper: Murals, For the First Time
Minako, shown below in the Evergreen colourway, is an abstract mural of overlapping inkwork, originally developed as a Harlequin fabric before being reworked at full mural scale, its layered washes building a landscape with real movement across two drops. Grounded takes a more botanical route, an oversized, dreamy eucalyptus motif in the same muted palette. Flores follows Minako's route from fabric to wallpaper: an overblown watercolour floral, adapted from the Signature fabric collection and blown up into enormous flower heads drawn in loose washes, shown here in a soft Powder, Sky and Parchment colourway that suits a bedroom particularly well. All three are built to run the full width of a wall without an obvious repeat, which is the point of a proper mural: no seam interrupting the pattern, no sense that you are looking at wallpaper rather than a single, considered scene.
Minako, Evergreen by Harlequin (Signature Mural)
Grounded, Eucalyptus by Harlequin (Signature Mural)
Flores, Powder / Sky / Parchment by Harlequin (Signature Mural)
Away from the murals, Signature reworks a run of Harlequin's own archive patterns at a smaller, more everyday scale. Water Salice takes a delicate willow sprig print, catkins and all, and renders it in a soft, quiet taupe, the kind of paper built to sit behind a mural or a bolder pattern rather than compete with it. Alvaro goes the other way entirely, an oversized palm frond in Rosewood, Plum and Olive that reads as properly botanical rather than tropical-cliché, shown below against a plush curved chair and a marble floor that suit its slightly glamorous mood. Beyond these two, Seri II, Nalina, Saona, Kayu and a run of Mineral plains round out the papers.
Water Salice, Taupe by Harlequin
Alvaro, Rosewood / Plum / Olive by Harlequin
Fabric: Stitched, Not Printed
The fabric side of Signature is a different proposition entirely. Zeal II looks like a set of loose brushstrokes and deconstructed stripes from across a room, but it is embroidered, cotton, polyester and linen thread built up in horizontal bands until the effect reads as painted rather than woven. Sumi Ikat takes the opposite route: a genuinely woven fabric, not embroidered, that borrows the soft-edged blur of traditional ikat dyeing and renders it in polyester built for curtains, blinds and cushions alike. Seen this close, both make the case for why a fabric sample is worth ordering before a wallpaper swatch alone: texture changes everything about how a pattern reads.
Zeal II, Indigo / Julip / Sky / Stone by Harlequin
Sumi Ikat, Copper by Harlequin
Takara Embroidery is the fabric range's biggest gesture, a large scale, tactile design built for drapes rather than a single cushion, shown here at proper curtain length so the scale of the repeat actually reads. Flores Embroidery goes softer, the fabric counterpart to the wallpaper mural above: an oversized, contemporary take on flower heads, inspired by abstract watercolour painting and stitched in viscose onto a pure cotton base, so anyone who liked the mural has a fabric to match it with, not just a coincidence of naming. Beyond these, Nuru Embroidery reworks an existing Harlequin velvet, originally from the Zambezi range, in stitching rather than pile, while Salice Embroidery, Kalimba and Formation Embroidery round out the fabrics.
Takara Embroidery, Indigo / Denim by Harlequin
Flores Embroidery, Positano / Emerald / Midnight by Harlequin
Because so much of this collection lives in subtle colour, scale and texture changes from Harlequin's originals, always order a sample before you commit, paper or cloth. Screens rarely capture how a colourway reads in real light, a mural is worth seeing at proper scale before you measure a wall for it, and a stitched fabric in particular needs to be felt as well as seen.
Ready to Bring Signature Into Your Home?
Browse the full Signature Wallpaper collection and the Signature Fabric collection by Harlequin, or explore the wider Harlequin range and the Murals collection, and order a sample from any product page via our Sample Service before you commit to a room.
