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This fragment is part of the "CulturalxCollabs - Weaving the Future" carpet.
Through the fragment we trace the journey of the fragment owners and their collabs as they explore, experiment and creatively advance socially relevant themes. Here is the fragment as we are sending it on this three and a half-year journey.
Follow this story to observe the transformations the fragment undergoes over the course of these years...
I work as a textile conservator at the Museum for Islamic Art and also freelance in Berlin. I have been following my colleague Anna Beselin's project 'Weaving the Future' with great interest from the beginning.
The Fragment #18 followed me to Nesselwang in the Allgäu region in February 2024. Here, at the foot of the Alpspitze, it immediately feels at home and enjoys the view over Nesselwang and the Alps in the background.
Here we are particularly interested in the Lienzo Coixtlahuaca II / Lienzo Seler II, which has been in the collection of the Ethnological Museum since 1897. The Lienzo is a painted textile that comes from Coixtlahuaca in Mexico and is one of the most significant objects in the collection. It was created in pre-colonial times and its depictions show the history and important events of the Coixtlahuaca region. A collaborative workshop with partners from the Coixtlahuaca valley took place in April 2024 on this impressive object. If you want to know more about this, follow fragment #63 and Monika Pacheco to Oaxaca in Mexico and the valley of Coixtlahuaca.
The old Roman road Via Claudia Augusta winds its way south, connecting the Danube with the Adriatic and leading towards Venice. It served as an exchange of goods and cultural ideas between the Romans and the Germanic peoples, so it was a CulturalXCollab street from the beginning.
The Via Claudia Augusta makes art-loving Fragment #18 dream and awakens the desire to travel again.
There is an opportunity to travel to Venice with Anke Klusmeier.
The Museum for Islamic Art's project, #CulturalxCollabs - Weaving the future, celebrates the transformative power of cultural exchange and the shared threads that unite us all. All the things we love, have loved and will ever love come from cultural exchange, migration and diversity, or as we like to call it #CulturalxCollabs.
100 carpet fragments, cut from a replica of the iconic dragon carpet, will travel the world (delivered by DHL). The fragments will ignite #CulturalxCollabs with co-creators, inspiring human ingenuity, fostering community and ultimately demonstrating how cultural exchange enriches all our lives.
Follow #CulturalxCollabs on Instagram as the project unfolds...
Join us on a journey with 100 carpet fragments as they travel around the world for three and a half years, finding temporary homes while bridging cultural boundaries, fostering worldwide community united by the power of human stories.
100 carpet fragments part of the "CulturalxCollabs - Weaving the Future" project. Follow their journeys through the ever changing owners' over three and a half years.
The star of the "CulturalxCollabs - Weaving the Future" project is a so-called Caucasian dragon carpet from the 17th century. A dragon carpet - all well and good - but: where is the dragon?