The new “Cime” carpet collection stems from Saba’s desire to use the material of which a carpet is made of as a canvas to express its values, that is the concept of memory and poetry. To link the memory of the past, made of artisanal traditions to be preserved, to contemporary aesthetics, was the theme entrusted to the creative duo Zanellato/Bortotto, whose collaboration with the company had already been established. As previously done for the Vela sofa, the designers also drew on the nautical world for this project, this time inspired by lugsails.
Characteristic of the Adriatic, lugsails held particular functions, including that of establishing a system of immediate recognition at sea. The graphics of the three carpets that make up the collection refer to the symbols and colors of the sails that identified fishermen families of the Venetian laguna, especially of the Chioggia nautical center. However, what really excites visually and in a tactile form, is the ancient Sardinian technique called Pibiones, handed down by generations of women. The journey with the Mariantonia Urru laboratory has been engaging and stimulating, a weaving mill that looks to the future while maintaining a quality of product and craftsmanship that belongs to the past, constituting a great heritage of technical and cultural value. These carpets become places for narrating of stories and traditions and are told through a “sheep-dyed” wool thread, in which the voice of nature is the protagonist as these colors are created with no chemical intervention but only by mixing different amounts of the wool from white and black sheep. The collection includes a graphic whose colors are exclusively made with tonalities derived from the natural wool of sheep (there are two shades of gray and the natural dye) and a graphic available in two color variants: natural “sheep-dyed” and earth red.
