Maie Salameh
Journal
[olive sketch]
page 01 / memory
I do not remember the first time I noticed tatreez. I think it was simply always there.
In family rooms, on dresses kept carefully, in colors women carried into celebration and memory.
Before I knew how to call it design, I understood that cloth could keep a story. A sleeve, a border, the weight of red thread. These things were never quiet to me.
thread rememberstatreez / تطريز
Tatreez is not only decoration. It is a sentence made by hand: place, woman, season, ritual, protection, return.
motif repeats until it becomes language
[motif study]
Things I Keep Coming Back To
pomegranate red, stone, shadow
An idea becomes real slowly: a reference, a motif, a color, a wrong sleeve, a better proportion, a stitch that suddenly makes the garment speak.
research / archive
My research does not stay in one place. It gathers from old garments, stone houses, village motifs, flowers, family photographs, color cards, and the atmosphere around women preparing for an occasion.
olive green?keep this bordertoo heavytry smallerبيت لحمstone + threadremember thismaterials
The drawing changes when the fabric arrives. Silk asks for one kind of patience. Heavy embroidery asks for another. I pin, remove, fold, compare, and start again.
folded corner / pin later
sketch page
too heavy[fashion sketch]
maybe embroidery begins at the shoulder?
An idea becomes real slowly: a reference, a motif, a color, a wrong sleeve, a better proportion, a stitch that suddenly makes the garment speak.
refinement
keep the line long / let the motif breathe
[final garment photograph]
I want the finished piece to carry memory without freezing it. Heritage has to keep moving with the woman who wears it now.
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