Can a textile collection engage our very notion of the origins of being?

Evolutionary Forces by Suzanne Tick.

It can if authored by Suzanne Tick, former Creative Director of Luum and Titaness of the textile arts.

Unbounded from the Evolutionary Forces Line.

Known for subtly incorporating organic patterns into her work, Tick has also been a pioneer in the use of sustainable materials, including creating the first textile line that’s 100% biodegradable, made exclusively with post-consumer material (see Grid State).

Simplicity textile.

Tick’s most recent endeavor in this vein: three additions to Luum’s Evolutionary Forces Line. Complementing the extant “Simplicity” and “Unbounded” patterns, “Adaptation,” “Cognition,” and “Observation” enhance the metaphor of evolutionary forces while expanding options for curtains, upholstery, ceilings, and walls.

Cognition (above and below) is a thinking-person’s indoor/outdoor fabric with a pronounced texture and multi-color boucle surface.

As Luum’s first high-UV drapery, Observation will help enhance perceptual powers via the arts of implication and intimation. Users will be invited to pull the curtain back on Observation’s “luxe lightweight feel and a range of colorways: ethereal neutrals, tinted clay, sky blue, and eggplant.”

Lastly, the ekphrastic-inspired Adaption came to Tick as an interpretation of footfalls imprinted on the shore after a rare sea-side snow. This textile is a soft acrylic chenille whose fibers part ways to reveal a fluid stripe along a length of de-lustered acrylic.

The five different patterns in the Evolutionary Forces collection encompass acrylic, polypropylene, polyester, and Luum’s patented post-consumer polyester Seaqual Yarn—holistic materials that complement the nature-centric aesthetic: “an organic approach to pattern that brings color, texture, and comfort to the forefront—grounding spaces in a renewed focus on wellness.”