Fabric Colour Stories: Dill Green

Welcome back to our Fabric Colour Stories series. We're taking a deep dive into key colours from Pinterest's annual palette, alongside Mocha Mousse, Pantone's colour of the year, to look at how these colours translate into real-world fabric and applications from our perspective here at FibreGuard.

Let’s get our fill of dill green today! Ready?

So what colour is 'dill green' colour?

Dill green (#788D5F) ‘feels’ like fresh herbs in a kitchen garden, which is what Pinterest were going for.

Pickled perfection in a colour. Born from trends such as Pickle Fix and Terra Futura, this tangy take on green is shaking up kitchens, wardrobes and cocktails that are too cool to sip. – Pinterest

It’s not quite sage and not quite pistachio (yes, we’re hungry now): this muted, deeply saturated colour sits in the middle.

How do Pinterest find their colours?

Pinterest builds their palette from deep data analysis of what their users want and need.

The process begins with identifying patterns in searches like 'cherry red fashion' and 'soft yellow aesthetics', tracking how users engage with colour-focused content across the platform.

Pinterest's creative and data teams then collaborate to map these trending searches against their platform's colour data. They examine user behaviour patterns, especially saves and engagement metrics to understand which colours generate sustained interest over time.

This methodology produces trend-driven colours that demonstrate real staying power. From pickle-perfect greens to soft yellow daydreams, these carefully selected hues show genuine potential to influence both Pinterest users and broader cultural trends.

The result gives designers and brands valuable insight into colours poised to shape the coming year's aesthetic landscape.

What colours go with green upholstery?

Dill green pairs up with a pretty impressive range of colours: a designer's dream! Some colour combinations that show dill green at its best are:

• Warm whites, cream, and bone. These neutrals allow the green to shine while providing some visual ‘breathing room’
• Earthy tones like terracotta, rust, and warm browns. These combinations work particularly well with green paint colours in living spaces where comfort and style need to coexist.
• Dill green pairs beautifully with soft pinks and corals, some unexpected colour combinations with a firm contemporary edge
• Navy blue provides a classic contrast that feels both timeless and current.

Why does dill green work in home textiles?

1. Versatility and Balance: Dill green can feel very grounded compared to brighter greens that can feel overwhelming when used across large fabric surfaces.
2. It fits in with a fabric textures: The texture of the fabrics are really important when it comes to specifying dill green as an upholstery choice. It should have a gentle hand feel, especially when blended with upholstery materials like linen and cotton
3. Hospitality spaces: Green is a colour that lasts, and this is particularly true in performance fabrics like FibreGuard that have the colour locked in. Perfect for high-traffic areas and high-use textiles
4. It looks great! in our social media-driven world, dill green looks fantastic, making it ideal for spaces that need to look good both in person and in digital imagery. See our colour blocking article!
5. Practical Performance: The colour’s natural depth helps hide minor stains and wear better than lighter neutrals, while its muted nature works well with stain-resistant treatments and performance fabric technologies.

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In a world often dominated by ‘safe’ neutrals, deeply saturated dill green stands apart as a textile option to make a space really pop. Are we saying neutrals are boring? Not at all! We love neutrals: we’re as passionate about all colours as we are about fabrics.

Whether you're creating a coloured blocked dining room or simply adding touches of this pickled favourite throughout the home, you need to head over to our Green Room Décor board on Pinterest first for some real inspiration.

Reminder: Why choose FibreGuard?

4 reasons:

1. Extensive colour ranges: You shouldn’t have to settle on your colour selection because you’re thinking about how the fabrics will hold up over time, and how easy they are to maintain in the meantime. Each collection is the product of a long process of decisions, resulting in a fabric that's perfectly designed to fit your needs and style.
2. Top-shelf textile durability specs: Designed for high-traffic environments, our fabrics ensure your products stay beautiful for longer. Whether it's a stain-resistant sofa fabric for the hospitality industry or an easy-clean upholstery fabric for offices, FibreGuard offers a wide range of solutions for different environments
3. Eco fabrics: Our fabrics are free of PFAs and VOCs. Apart from stain-removal tests, our fabrics also undergo mechanical and antimicrobial tests and comply to important eco-labels like the STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX® and the ISO 14001 Standard on Environmental Management.
4. Easy clean fabrics: FibreGuard’s focus is to be what we call ‘life-friendly’: offering upholstery fabrics ready to stand up to any spills or accidents that daily life can throw at them.