Digital Jacquard Weaving by Robin Muller

Based in Halifax (Canada), fiber artist Robin Muller has decades of Jacquard Weaving experience behind her. In this issue of our What’s on Your Loom series, we feature her recent projects. Robin’s artwork has been exhibited across the US and Canada as well as Norway, Finland, France, Germany, Korea and several countries in Africa. Her research interests include sustainable textiles and architectural applications of electronic textiles. 

Works…

Examples of digital Jacquard weavings from 2021 (Photos courtesy: Paul Dunphy)

Title: Lantern Market 1: Hoi An

Weave structures: Lampas on shaded satin ground

Materials: Cotton, Silk, Wool

Artwork dimensions: 15” x 26”/38cm x 66cm

Title: Schoolgirls: Hoi An

Weave structures: Taqueté

Materials: Cotton, Silk, Wool

Artwork dimensions: 23” x 26”/ 58cm x  68cm

Title: Monks and Roses: Hoi An

Weave structures: Lampas on shaded satin ground

Materials: Cotton, Silk, Wool

Artwork dimensions: 37” x 26” /94cm  x 68cm

Title: Shop Door, Tangiers

Weave structures: Taqueté

Materials: Cotton, Silk, Wool

Artwork dimensions: 31” x 26”/ 80cm x 68cm

Title: Stone Window, Jerez

Weave structures: Lampas on shaded satin ground

Materials: Cotton, Silk, Wool

Artwork dimensions: 27” x 26”/68cm  x 66 cm

Examples of digital Jacquard weavings from 2020 (Photo courtesy: Photos by Steve Farmer)

Title: Mosque, Tangiers

Weave structures: Lampas on shaded satin ground

Materials: Cotton, Silk, Wool

Artwork dimensions: 71cm x66cm

Title: Woven tiles, Tangier (2020)

Weave structures: Lampas on shaded satin ground

Materials: Cotton, Silk, Wool

Artwork dimensions: 62cm x 60cm

Title: Fading tiles, Tangier (2020)

Weave structures: Lampas on shaded satin ground

Materials: Cotton, Silk, Wool

Artwork dimensions: 46cm x 65cm

Title: Ravenna Floor

Weave structures: Lampas

Materials: Cotton, Wool, Real Gold

Artwork dimensions: 68cm x 81cm

Title: Ravenna Tiles

Weave structures: Taqueté

Materials: Cotton, Silk, Wool

Title: Ravenna Floor, Gold

Weave structures: Lampas

Materials: Cotton, Wool, Real Gold

Title: Ravenna Floor, Rust

Weave structures: Lampas on shaded satin ground

Materials: Cotton, Silk, Wool

Artwork dimensions: 60cm x 68cm

 

Title: Ravenna Floor, Rose

Weave structures: Taqueté

Materials: Cotton, Silk, Wool

Artwork dimensions: 60cm x 68cm

About…

Robin Muller was born in Virginia in 1955. She received her BFA from VCU in 1976 and her MFA from University of Michigan in 1978. She worked at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco and the University of North Dakota before immigrating to Canada to join the faculty of NSCAD in 1979. She taught weaving, specializing in complex structures and Jacquard weaving. She has completed residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles, the Jacquard Center in Hendersonville, North Carolina and the Lisio Foundation in Florence, Italy.

Her work is in private and public collections including The Museum of Civilization in Ottawa and the Nova Scotia Art Bank. From 2007-2012 Robin Muller and Dr. Sarah Bonnemaison, Dalhousie University led a multidisciplinary research group, ArchiTextile Lab or @lab. They explored architectural applications of electronic textiles. In 2011 she organized Sow to Sew, a conference on sustainable textiles held in Halifax and Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Twelve speakers addressed issues of sustainable fashion, growing and processing linen, using natural dyes and making cloth in various venues. She retired in 2015 to continue her artwork, pursue her interest in Flamenco dance and culture, and travel.

Links…

Website, Instagram