Buying guide

Clarke and Clarke Curtains: Designs and How to Choose

Q: Should Your Clarke & Clarke Curtains Be the Statement or the Supporting Layer?

Let Clarke & Clarke curtains become the statement when the room has enough visual space for stronger colour or pattern. If the walls, flooring and larger furniture are quiet, the window can carry more of the design.

Q: How does Clarke & Clarke feel compared with more heritage-led, minimalist or traditional designer fabric brands?

Clarke & Clarke is best treated as a colourful, pattern-led and contemporary designer fabric option, although textured and muted woven fabrics can give a calmer look. If you want strict heritage or minimalist styles, start calmer; if you want more design energy, Clarke & Clarke is often a better fit.

Q: Can Clarke & Clarke curtains coordinate with Roman blinds, cushions or other soft furnishings in the same room?

Yes. Link colour or pattern to cushions, upholstery, wall colour or artwork.

How to choose Clarke and Clarke curtains by colour, pattern, fabric feel, lining, room use, heading and made-to-measure fit.

British Made Interiors21 July 2026

Choose Clarke & Clarke curtains by matching the brand’s colour, pattern and fabric feel to your room style, then check lining, light/privacy needs, daily use, heading and fit before ordering made-to-measure through British Made Interiors.

Start with the room, not the fabric book. Ask whether the curtains need to add pattern, soften a plain scheme, improve privacy, control light, or finish an everyday window.

Key Takeaways

Clarke & Clarke is usually a strong fit when you want designer curtains with colour, texture, pattern and a fresh decorative feel.
Plain and textured fabrics are safer when the room already has bold walls or furniture; botanicals, geometrics and statement prints work best when the window can carry the design.
Bedrooms need more attention to privacy and light control than occasional rooms. One vendor describes blackout drapery lining as blocking up to 99%^[1] of natural light, but lining choice still needs to suit the fabric and room.
Before ordering, check fabric suitability, heading, lining, pattern placement and the confidence details, including British Made Interiors’ 10 year guarantee^[15].

Is Clarke & Clarke the Right Look for Your Room?

Clarke & Clarke suits rooms that can take designer colour, pattern and a current decorative feel. Sanderson Design Group describes the brand as eclectic, with British flair, luxurious textures and bold colour combinations.^[2] British Made Interiors describes Clarke and Clarke as a Cheshire-based brand using on-trend colourways and patterns for contemporary and modern homes.^[3]

That does not mean every Clarke & Clarke curtain needs to be loud. Ask whether the room needs curtains to add personality or already has enough pattern from wallpaper, rugs, cushions or upholstery. Homes & Gardens gives similar colour advice: curtain colour should work with the room’s wider palette rather than being chosen in isolation.^[4]

For example, a plain sitting room with pale walls may welcome a botanical or geometric. A bedroom with patterned wallpaper may look calmer with a textured neutral, muted weave, or colour pulled from the wall covering. If you are unsure, view samples near the window in morning, evening and artificial light.

Should You Choose a Plain, Textured, Botanical or Statement Clarke & Clarke Fabric?

Choose plain or textured Clarke & Clarke fabrics when you want depth without making the curtains the main feature. Choose botanical, geometric or statement patterns when the window can take a clearer design role and the rest of the room can support it.

Clarke & Clarke’s fabric range includes natural looks, bold geometrics, retro prints, velvets, cottons, semi-sheers and bouclés.^[5] Its Mode collection, for example, is described as refined, luxurious woven fabrics in a muted palette for traditional and contemporary interiors.^[6] That gives you two useful options: quiet texture for long-term depth, or stronger pattern when the curtains are part of the room’s main design.

If you are choosing for a living room, look at the window size before falling for a print. Large-scale motifs often need enough width and drop for the repeat to breathe. A small window can still take a bold fabric, but the surrounding scheme needs to be calmer.

Use specific designs as starting points, not automatic answers. British Made Interiors’ Passiflora Mineral/Blush page shows a Clarke and Clarke design within its made-to-measure curtain range and offers a fabric sample from £1.30^[8], which makes sampling a sensible low-risk step before committing to a made-to-measure pair.

If texture is your main concern, our existing advice on adding texture with curtain fabrics is a useful narrower follow-up.

How British Made Interiors compares with other made-to-measure curtain services

What to compare	British Made Interiors	Britannia Rose	Graham Sanderson Interiors
Products	Made-to-measure curtains, Roman blinds and soft furnishings.	Made-to-measure curtains.	Bespoke made-to-measure soft furnishings.
Where they are made	Made in its own bespoke factory.	Made in the UK.	Handcrafted in Yorkshire.

Compare the fabric choice, ordering support and workroom details before choosing where to order.

Which Clarke & Clarke Fabric Works Best for the Room You Use Every Day?

The best Clarke & Clarke curtain fabric depends on use. Bedrooms usually need closer attention to privacy, lining and light control. Living rooms need softness, warmth, privacy and daylight. Dining rooms and occasional rooms can often focus more on look and atmosphere.

Henley Charcoal Clarke and Clarke made-to-measure curtain fabric example from British Made Interiors — A Clarke and Clarke made-to-measure curtain example helps you judge colour, pattern scale and fabric feel.

Lining changes the decision. British Made Interiors describes blackout lining as useful for bedrooms and rooms where less light is helpful; its Clarke & Clarke curtain page explains that blackout lining uses three bonded fabric layers, often called triple pass blackout.^[9] Another source describes blackout opacity as 97–100%^[10] light blockage, while triple weave lining may give 60-99% Light-blocking^[11]. Treat those figures as guidance because gaps, fabric choice and installation affect the result.

Interlining also changes the finished curtain. British Made Interiors explains that heavyweight curtain interlining is made up of very a dense cotton and creates a thick barrier, while lightweight curtain interlining adds body without adding weight^[9]. It can make a curtain feel fuller, but may not suit every fabric or heading.

Think about daily handling too. A curtain opened every morning needs to suit repeated use, the chosen heading and the expected stack back. If warmth or privacy matters, check fabric and lining together.

BMI's Sanderson page presents wool and weave collections as traditional or country-led, while velvet is presented as softer, decadent and strongly draping. Use that as a style clue rather than a hard rule for every fabric. A weave can feel neat and grounded; a velvet can feel richer and softer; a printed cotton may feel fresher and more decorative. The room’s use should decide which feel is safest.

Your room	Recommended choice	Trade-off	Next step
Bedroom: light and privacy	Clarke & Clarke fabric with blackout or privacy lining.	A heavier lining can change the drape.	Order samples, then compare curtain linings explained.
Living room: day and evening	A fabric balancing colour, softness, warmth and daylight.	A bold pattern can date if it clashes with the room.	Check samples in the room.
Plain room needing character	A botanical, geometric or statement fabric.	The window becomes the focal point.	Check pattern scale at the window.
Room with existing pattern	A plain, textured or muted weave.	Quieter alone, calmer when fitted.	Match one existing room colour.

Should Your Clarke & Clarke Curtains Be the Statement or the Supporting Layer?

Decide whether the window should lead or support before choosing the fabric. If wallpaper, upholstery or rugs are already strong, a calmer fabric is usually safer.

Colour is the first check. Homes & Gardens warns that curtain colour mistakes can affect the whole room when the shade fights the palette.^[12] A good Clarke & Clarke choice usually links to at least one existing detail: sofa shade, cushion colour, artwork, wall colour, rug tone or metal finish.

Pattern scale is the second check. A small sample can make a large repeat feel easy, but the same repeat may look different across a full pair of curtains. House Beautiful describes Dane Austin choosing drapery in the background colour of a detailed wallcovering so the folded print harmonised rather than fought the wall.^[13]

If you are torn, choose the role before choosing the fabric.

What Should You Check Before Ordering Clarke & Clarke Made-to-Measure Curtains?

Before ordering Clarke & Clarke made-to-measure curtains, check more than the print. A fabric that looks beautiful by the metre still needs to suit curtains in weight, drape, pattern placement, heading style, lining and finish. For practical context, some window-treatment choices use precise allowances: British Made Interiors notes a 1cm^[16] inside-recess deduction for blinds, while one curtain privacy guide suggests extending poles 3 to 6 inches^[17] beyond the frame. Use them as prompts.

Heading choice affects how formal or relaxed the curtain feels. Pencil pleat, deep pleat and wave headings change the top, stack back and how the fabric shows when drawn. If heading style is your next decision, our guide to curtain styles gives a narrower explanation.

Lining and finish should come after the fabric shortlist. Thermal lining, blackout lining and interlining can change warmth, privacy, light control, body and hang. Our Clarke & Clarke curtain page explains these choices alongside fabric, heading and made-to-measure ordering options.^[9]

British Made Interiors Clarke and Clarke made-to-measure curtains are manufactured in its Yorkshire workroom and made to the buyer's sizes and style. British Made Interiors supplies genuine designer fabrics directly from the brands. That is why it is safer to choose the fabric, lining, heading and making details together before you order.

Pattern placement is another risk with designer fabrics. British Made Interiors states that it pattern matches all curtains starting from the top, so various sized curtains in the same order start in the same place^[9]. British Made Interiors pattern-matches curtains and blinds from the top across the whole order, including items with different drops when they use the same fabric in the same room.

British Made Interiors also states that every fabric joint is matched 100%^[14] to give a seamless flow on made-to-measure curtains. Treat this as a construction detail to ask about when a patterned Clarke & Clarke fabric appears across more than one curtain, window or soft furnishing.

When you are ready to move from shortlist to order, use our Clarke & Clarke made-to-measure curtains page to review the fabric, lining, heading and ordering choices together. If size details are the part you are unsure about, use our curtain measuring guides rather than trying to turn the fabric decision into a measuring lesson.

FAQ

How does Clarke & Clarke feel compared with more heritage-led, minimalist or traditional designer fabric brands?

It is more colourful and pattern-led than strict heritage or minimalist styles, though textured and muted weaves can calm it down.

Can Clarke & Clarke curtains coordinate with Roman blinds, cushions or other soft furnishings in the same room?

Yes, but when the same fabric appears across curtains, Roman blinds or other soft furnishings, check pattern placement, lining and finish so the room feels planned.