TRAPPED
Umme releases a 3-D Textile Embroidery collection for fashion by London based Textiles designer Umme Salma.
‘Trapped’ is the core theme of this collection and relates to the working lives of people entrapped in the fashion production cycle. The collection is a fusion of a variety of elements including: environmental and working conditions; the vibrant profusion of clashing colours; off-shoulder silhouettes; loose clothing not conforming to gender stereotypes.
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 men and women combining natural, synthetic and artificial fibres for a Pre-fall season 2015/16.
As Umme is an embroidery textile design company at the forefront of 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 diverse range of media and techniques
This has included the art of hand embroidery, thread work, gold and metal work, beading, appliqué, cut appliqué, patchwork and the infamous use of quilting.
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.