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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...
The journey begins...
...with Lucia Kempkes
"Carpet Weaving as a Drawing Practice" was a seminar I taught in the winter semester of 2024/25 at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. The carpet fragment was part of the seminar as input on the tradition of carpet weaving, its technique, and aesthetics. The students' artistic results are outstanding, individual, and demonstrate the versatility of the possible interpretations of weaving and carpet weaving as an artistic practice.
Final Presentation and Exhibition
The completed works were presented in an exhibition, either hanging freely, on the wall, or within a custom-built scaffold structure.
The Battle Within
by Sandra Waldfrost
Why is there straw here? / The Great Temptation
by Ferdinand Golz
Arable land and fields
by Rosalie Radke
Completely and Independently
by Sahrah Feyerabend
Untitled
by Jacob Lepp
Untitled
by Lillian Senfft von Pilsach
Tell the floor
by Romi Kroener
Keyhole
by Ayla Aoki
The future is clear. It's going to fall apart.
by Agathe Salva
3450min
by Tine Metka
How are you doing? [Unsolicited Nudes pt.2]
by Ben Thiele
Random-Access Memory
by Annekathrin Stroekel
Bergstrasse 15
by Emilia Justen
Counting sheep
by Amelie Brauer
Front and Back
About the Project
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...
...or learn more here
Weaving the Future
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.
Where is the Dragon?
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?
Fragment Journeys
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.
