Warm bark-brown fabric with softly mottled texture and faint vertical tonal variation

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Clarke & Clarke

Alvar Bark

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Alvar Bark is a warm, earthy brown textile with a softly mottled plain surface. Subtle tonal shifts across the swatch give the shade depth without introducing a visible motif.

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Part of the range we hold from Clarke & Clarke.

About this fabric

The surface reads as bark brown with a muted taupe cast, while faint vertical tonal variation adds understated texture across the cloth. At 300gsm, it has the presence of a versatile mid-weight fabric rather than a fine, fluid drapery cloth. The usable width is 144cm and the standard length is 35m. With a 0cm vertical and 0cm horizontal repeat, its plain appearance can be positioned without pattern matching.

How to use it

Use Alvar Bark to bring warm, grounded depth to an upholstered chair, sofa or headboard, or pair it with softly contrasting neutrals for relaxed curtains. Its muted brown tone works especially well alongside oatmeal, stone, charcoal and aged timber.

A warm, softly mottled brown with enough visual quietness for upholstery or relaxed window treatments.

Clarke & Clarke Alvar 2 Fabric

Specification

Usable width: 144 cm
Standard length: 35 m
Vertical repeat: 0 cm
Horizontal repeat: 0 cm
Weight: 300 gsm

Specification as published by Clarke & Clarke. We will confirm the current details with them before you order.

Made up by us

Every metre we order is cut, sewn and fitted in our own Heybridge workshop, with Simon over every stage. Reupholstery, bespoke pieces, curtains, blinds and headboards.

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Alvar Bark is a quiet cloth, so it carries a pattern beside it: one of these on the curtains and this on the chair. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.

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Paint that goes with it

Two ways to take the room. Both colours are from houses we hold, so a pot can come off the same order as the cloth. Screens shift colour, so treat these as a direction and bring the cloth to the shelf before you buy the paint.

To sit quietly behind it

Muddy Warren

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To stand against it

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