We are interested in what fabric can bring to life. This journal is a celebration of the lifestyle, culture and design that influences what we do.
Journal
Diana Vreeland was a woman with an innate ability to see talent, creativity, and style in people before they had fully realised it in themselves. Positioned at the forefront of the 1960s ‘youthquake’ she favoured individuals with personality in their looks and discovered some of the era’s best kn...
“A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?”
“A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?”
Zepel Product Developer Bonnie Mack discovered textile design through her passion for fashion and sourcing vintage fabrics. Read on to uncover the sustainable textile innovations and multidisciplinary artists who inspire her work as a designer.
With an enviable understanding of design and a natural ability to combine their sense of modernism with time honoured traditions, Italian artisans have been weaving textiles for centuries. In conjunction with their flair for design, Italian upholstery mills have been driven to enhance the qualit...
“The beauty of weaving is that you can create something simple, but the yarns, binding styles, and colours make it beautiful.”
“The beauty of weaving is that you can create something simple, but the yarns, binding styles, and colours make it beautiful.”
Despite dreaming of a career in fashion, happenstance lead Stephanie Moffitt, Mokum Design Director, straight from design school to a career in interior textiles. Discover the cultural fascination, thematic collections, and risk-taking collaborators who help to maintain her affection for the Moku...
Annie Moir, James Dunlop Design Director and James Dunlop descendant, offers a unique insight into growing up enveloped by the world of textiles and the unexpected twists which lead her into a career within it.
The textiles from Mokum's Surface Outdoor collection meet the visual, tactile, and performance requirements for outdoor applications in a palette of foliage-based greens, ocean blues, baked terracotta, and earthy neutrals spanning sea salt whites to deep basalt blacks. Lifted from the Surface col...
Digital printing is the latest printing revolution. It can be used to produce large scale designs, designs with many layers of colours, and designs that are not restricted by the roll width in terms of their pattern repeat. Designs can also be digitally printed onto PVC vinyl substrates which are...
The first known method of wallpaper printing was recorded in 1509. Prior to this, plain paper was pasted to the wall to be drawn on and coloured in by artists. In this article we outline the plethora of design styles and printing techniques that are, or have been, commonly used for the mass produ...
