The Story
Poeticwear started in a tiny bedroom in Edinburgh, Scotland. I laid some fabric on an ironing board late at night and painted a few verses from Nizar Qabbani’s poetry. I remember looking at the half-finished fabric and thinking, “This is where poetry belongs… on something that moves. Something that can be held, worn, traveled with, slept beside. A story that follows us as we live through our own.”
Since then, the project has branched out into many avenues. It’s become a story of a woman’s passage into freedom. A journey away from home, and towards home. It is a way of life that breathes its message through textile.
poeticwear
Poeticwear isn’t about painting pretty words on fabric. It’s an invitation to wear a poem, and to reflect on who we are as bearers of that poetry. The calligraphy I paint isn’t meant to be read but experienced as a feeling. It’s a dance of words against thrifted and repurposed fabric. It’s my little piece of Syria that I get to send home with others.
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designed with reed, bamboo, and ink … from one writer to another.
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Each custom-made piece is hand painted and 100% personalized, from the fabric and the paint colors, to the poem chosen. Whatever the client’s preference, I work closely with them in order to create a piece that is entirely their own.