April 20, 2026
Discoveries along the Silk Road
Weaving together history, imagination and craftsmanship.
Fischbacher 1819 extends its Silk Road collection into hand-knotted and flat-woven carpets in collaboration with Zollanvari, a third-generation Iranian carpet manufacturer now based in Switzerland, known for preserving traditional nomadic weaving techniques while bringing them into a contemporary context.
Each carpet is made using hand-spun highland wool sourced from the Zagros Mountains, prized for its softness and durability. The wool is dyed entirely with natural pigments derived from locally grown plants, including indigo for blue, pomegranate for warm golds, wild dill for greens, walnut for browns, and madder root for rich reds and oranges. The dyeing process is slow and precise, often taking up to 48 hours to achieve the desired depth and permanence of colour.
The carpets are produced by nomadic and semi-nomadic women from tribes such as the Afshar, Luri and Qashqai, who weave as part of their seasonal migration through the Zagros Mountains. Working on mobile looms, these makers continue a lineage of craft passed down through generations, where weaving is embedded into daily life rather than confined to a fixed workshop.
Within Iranian carpet culture, textiles are not purely decorative objects but carriers of narrative. Pattern, structure and texture are used to record memory, identity and movement across time. Each knot contributes to that story, building a surface that holds both material and meaning.
The designs, developed by the Fischbacher 1819 studio, draw on Persian mythology and Silk Road history. The four carpets - Kamila, Bejan, Jamshid and Kamran - reference figures from the Shahnameh and other cultural narratives, translating symbolic and historical motifs into a contemporary language suited to modern interiors.
As each piece is handmade, slight variations in size and colour are inherent and considered part of the carpet’s character, giving every piece a unique identity.
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