‘CHANCE’
Umme releases a 3-D Textile Embroidery collaboration collection for fashion by London based Textile and Womenswear designers Umme Salma and Clarissa Kang
‘Chance makes Nothing Visible
Chance makes obvious what we cannot see nor hear.
To take chance,
and leave it to chance,
to commit the unexpected
and accept and transcendence of meaning
to hold the intangible’
‘Trapped’ is the core theme for the textile designs and relates to the working lives of people entrapped in the fashion production cycle.
The textiles are inspired by urban and rural spaces in Bangladesh allowing embroideries to be produced and created for a High End luxury collection for womenswear Fall season 2015/16.
Umme is an embroidery textile designer at the forefront of her three-dimensional structures on the surfaces of textile embroidery designs (http://showtime.arts.ac.uk/UmmeSalma90). The drive behind this range has created textiles using a tone on tone colour range for the organic thread and 3-D embroidery
This has included the art of hand embroidery, thread work, hand cut appliqué and the infamous use of beading.
Umme is not about 'see and go' but encourages you to feel the purity of the wealth in the media portrayed in the textiles. A belief in touch and feel creates a certain value to the craftsmanship in the collection.
The use of these 3-D embroidery mediums carries the value from past generations of traditional techniques and acknowledges the younger market of today’s generation. The works of this embroidery can be used to resemble a modern day digitised print.