CulturalxCollabs: Fragment No. 33 highlighted © Museum für Islamische Kunst, Heiner BüldCulturalxCollabs: Fragment No. 33 highlighted © Museum für Islamische Kunst, Heiner Büld

Cultural x Collabs: Weaving the Future

Fragment No. 33

100 Fragment Journeys

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 Christoph Selig

I was fascinated from the very beginning. Being part of it and helping to make it happen is an honor. It is exciting to see how far the little segments travel, what they see and what stories they will bring back.

It was a long journey: from the kick-off in Berlin, to our home, to friends in Norway, back to Berlin, as something to sit on for the cat, to Singapore and back and finally to the UK to find a new home!

CulturalxCollabs: Fragment No. 33 © Museum für Islamische Kunst, Heiner Büld

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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.

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.

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?