Hello and Welcome to the New Look Website for Forte Cloth.

Let us take you to the centre of carpet and rug design with the services we provide and keep up to date with our new blog page, following the latest trends and tradeshows at your fingertips. With a wealth of experience between a specialised team of designers Forte Cloth encapsulates the skillful art form of carpet and rug design mixing traditional and modern techniques to extract the best artwork generation selling worldwide to the masses.
Based in the historical town of Kidderminster, Forte Cloth is within the central hub of flooring design and aims to carry forward the heritage and not let this beautiful artistry fade into the background.

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History

Dating back to the middle ages the plentiful cloth trade in Kidderminster soon developed into the centre of British carpet manufacturing and by the early 13th century Kidderminster had great importance as a growing industrial town.
Over the following centuries the town specialised in textile trades such as weaving, cloth working and milling, and was also home to numerous other trades including shoemaking, haberdashery, saddle making, dyers, tailors, tanners and glovers.
Unfortunately due to foreign imports driven by consumer needs numerous factories and design centres have had to close down leaving only a small number of British manufacturers still in the Kidderminster area.
As a passionate team with a vast archive of design knowledge and the handwriting of over 20 designers we strive to carry on the expansion of rug design and production and keep Kidderminster on the map.

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Design

We specialise in the creation of on trend patterns and production ready files for use by the worlds most prestigious manufacturers. We utilise and gather trend direction from various sources such as magazines, blogs, tradeshows and customer interaction bringing the most up to date pattern from digital design to reality.
Above you can see a mix of traditional and contemporary techniques such as the use of point papers and hand painted design to trend research and computer aided design.
All of these skills put together maximise development providing the best in unique artwork ready to sell copyrighted or under license.
We keep a close relationship with our customers and with a great volume of knowledge spanning over 300 years we bring the best mix of traditional and contemporary design to the table. Come visit us or meet us at the next tradeshow event. Click contact us or check out our calender to view the very best in design.
Please go ahead and explore the new improved www.fortecloth.com