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title: "Crushed Velvet"
description: "What crushed velvet is and how it is used on UK upholstered beds and buttoned headboards."
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primary_entity: "crushed velvet bed fabric"
date_published: 2026-08-03
date_modified: 2026-08-03
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# Crushed Velvet

> Crushed velvet is a pile fabric finished for varied fibre direction and mottled sheen. Sit marks can show as temporary pile crush. Retailers offer it in colourways such as cream, silver, black, and mink. It is a cover choice for upholstered beds and headboards, not a different mattress construction.

**Definition.** Crushed velvet is a pile fabric finished so fibre direction varies. That creates a mottled sheen. It is popular on tufted headboards and upholstered bed frames.

Also called: crush velvet.

Common on [Chesterfield and buttoned](/beds/chesterfield-and-buttoned-beds) faces
because tufting reads clearly in pile fabrics.

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