Mokum Textiles – Contemporary Designer Fabrics
Contemporary Designer Fabrics with an Australasian Point of View
Mokum is a contemporary textile brand known for expressive pattern, sophisticated color, tactile texture, and a distinctive Southern Hemisphere design perspective.
Part of James Dunlop Textiles, Mokum draws inspiration from culture, travel, art, lifestyle, and the natural environment. Its fabrics are designed to feel original and statement-making while remaining highly usable in sophisticated residential and commercial interiors.
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Mokum Fabrics
The Mokum fabric collection includes a broad range of luxury upholstery fabrics, drapery fabrics, decorative textiles, textured plains, embroidered designs, printed fabrics, woven patterns, and outdoor textiles.
Mokum takes global influences and interprets them through a distinctly Australasian lens. The result is a collection that can move from relaxed natural textures to expressive tropical prints, sophisticated geometrics, and richly colored statement fabrics.
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Mokum Upholstery Fabrics
Mokum offers an extensive selection of designer upholstery fabrics for residential and commercial interiors.
Depending on the individual construction, Mokum textiles may be suitable for:
Sofas and sectionals
Dining chairs
Occasional chairs
Banquettes
Benches
Ottomans
Headboards
Decorative cushions
The collection includes highly tactile plains as well as statement-making woven and printed designs, allowing designers to build a scheme around both texture and pattern.
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Mokum Drapery Fabrics
Drapery is another major strength of the Mokum collection.
The brand produces decorative drapery fabrics, sheers, linen-look textiles, embroidered fabrics, prints, and lightweight woven designs created to bring movement and softness to windows.
Many Mokum collections are designed so upholstery and drapery can work together within a complete interior scheme.
Because fabric width, weight, fiber content, and recommended application vary by pattern, technical specifications should always be reviewed before ordering.
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Soleil Voyage by Mokum
One of Mokum's newest collections is Soleil Voyage, a textile collection inspired by the landscapes, flora, ocean colors, and craft traditions of the South Pacific.
The collection combines hand-painted tropical motifs with richly textured weaves and considered fiber blends. Mokum describes Soleil Voyage as a sensory journey through the South Pacific, drawing on lush foliage, vivid flowers, lagoons, indigenous craft, and relaxed resort living.
Current designs within the Mokum offering include patterns such as Revel, Motion, Luire, Verdancia, Solara, Grande Terre, Panie, Cordia, Cowrie, Papeete, Pandanus, Epitome, Ottica, Strata, and Sardinia.
Modern Art by Mokum
The Modern Art collection reflects Mokum's strong relationship with contemporary art and creative experimentation.
Inspired by Abstract Expressionism and visits to institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York, the collection explores abstract pattern, embroidered geometrics, tactile plains, and expressive woven constructions.
Modern Art demonstrates the more graphic and artistic side of Mokum while retaining the sophisticated color and material quality associated with the brand.
Surface by Mokum
Mokum's Surface collection explores natural materials, architecture, and tactile interiors.
The collection was influenced by the textural qualities of adobe architecture, natural materials, and the restrained environments associated with the American Southwest.
This focus on surface and materiality makes the collection particularly useful for interiors where the richness of a textile comes through its weave and texture rather than overt decorative pattern.
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Surface Outdoor
Mokum extends this approach into exterior living through its Surface Outdoor collection.
Surface Outdoor combines visual and tactile sophistication with constructions developed for outdoor use. Its palette draws on foliage greens, ocean blues, terracotta, and earthy neutrals, reflecting Mokum's connection to natural landscapes and indoor-outdoor living.
These fabrics are particularly useful for:
Terraces
Covered patios
Poolside furniture
Outdoor lounges
Sunrooms
Indoor-outdoor living spaces
High-use interior upholstery
Specifications should always be checked for the individual fabric before exterior installation.
Catherine Martin by Mokum
Mokum is also known for its celebrated collaboration with Catherine Martin, the Academy Award-winning production and costume designer.
The Catherine Martin by Mokum collections combine cinematic storytelling, decorative history, bold color, and theatrical pattern.
Notable collections include The Royal Menagerie and Moonlight Memphis, both of which translate Martin's richly layered design language into fabrics and wallpapers.
The Royal Menagerie
The Royal Menagerie is one of the most recognizable Catherine Martin by Mokum collections.
Inspired by historic menageries and the idea of exotic collections of animals and decorative curiosities, the collection incorporates peacocks, monkeys, tigers, leopards, botanicals, and expressive wallpaper designs.
The collection is ideal for interiors where fabric and wallpaper are intended to become major decorative statements rather than background elements.
Moonlight Memphis
Moonlight Memphis continues Catherine Martin's exploration of lush, theatrical pattern.
The collection grew from the visual research and stagecraft associated with the film Elvis and takes a playful approach to tropical botanicals, pattern, and maximalist decoration.
The designs work particularly well in layered, eclectic, glamorous, and highly individual interiors.
Ikigai by Mokum
The Ikigai collection reflects Mokum's proximity to Asia and the brand's interest in cultural exchange.
The collection evolved from Mokum's earlier La Primavera range, shifting toward an Asian-inspired aesthetic while retaining themes of visual optimism, feminine design, and bringing the outdoors into the interior.
This gives Ikigai a softer, decorative quality that works across drapery, upholstery, and accessories.
Artisan by Mokum
The Artisan collection celebrates traditional craft from around the world.
Inspired partly by the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, Artisan embraces beauty in texture, irregularity, and natural material character.
The collection combines luxury upholstery, drapery, and accessory textiles in an earthy palette while drawing on traditional techniques such as kilim-inspired weaving.
This makes Artisan especially well suited to relaxed interiors built around natural materials, handcrafted objects, and layered texture.
Pure by Mokum
For quieter interiors, Mokum's Pure collection focuses on simplicity, restraint, and tactile plain fabrics.
The collection includes textured upholstery and drapery fabrics in natural and synthetic blends, supported by a palette of neutrals and subtle pastel shades.
Pure provides an understated counterpart to Mokum's more expressive prints and patterns.
Textures, Weaves, and Natural-Inspired Materials
Texture is central to Mokum's design language.
The brand uses a wide variety of textile constructions, including bouclé effects, dimensional weaves, embroidered surfaces, linen-inspired textures, velvet-like finishes, and complex multicolored woven patterns.
These materials bring visual interest to interiors even when the pattern itself is restrained.
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Color and Creative Expression
Mokum describes its fabrics as distinctive and statement-making, and color is an important part of that identity.
The palette ranges from sophisticated neutrals and earth tones to ocean blues, botanical greens, warm terracottas, vivid floral shades, and expressive contemporary colors.
This breadth allows Mokum to work in everything from minimal modern spaces to tropical, maximalist, eclectic, and layered interiors.
Inspired by the Southern Hemisphere
Mokum's location is important to its design identity.
The brand's creative team draws heavily from the culture, lifestyle, landscapes, and natural environment of the Southern Hemisphere, giving the collections a perspective that differs from many traditional European textile houses.
That influence can be seen in the brand's frequent use of botanical references, outdoor living themes, coastal colors, global craft, and relaxed luxury.
Mokum and James Dunlop Textiles
Mokum is one of the proprietary textile brands of James Dunlop Textiles.
James Dunlop Textiles was founded in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1907 and is now operated by the fifth generation of the Dunlop family. The company develops its own James Dunlop, Mokum, and Zepel collections while also representing international textile brands.
The relationship gives Mokum access to more than a century of textile experience while allowing it to maintain a highly individual contemporary design identity.
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Mokum and James Dunlop Collections
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Order Mokum Textiles Through The WorkRoom
Mokum fabrics are available through The WorkRoom by request.
Our team can assist with current pricing, sample availability, fiber content, fabric width, pattern repeats, colorways, performance specifications, recommended applications, availability, lead times, and ordering assistance.
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