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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 Alexandra Skific
Welcome to Pula, Croatia. Proud to be part of the projekt.
Dragon carpet meets graffiti - we need some more inspiration.
Korina Bencic, Croatia
1/100
The first new part of the carpet is ready.
The task for each new piece is: get inspired and write a story, sentence or word about the original carpet. Then make, with the written one, a new part of the carpet.
The goal is to make a new carpet from 100 parts.
Romana Rupenović, Croatia
2/100
Second part of the new carpet is ready.
Thank you Mr. Carpet for breezing through Pula, and inspiring us to create new little carpets that will follow you through your journey. We wish you an exciting travel through Europe or the whole world, may your spirit live on through more art and inspirations!
The black and white carpet is a coloring book, waiting on another creative soul to be a part of its creation.
Lea Fabijanic, Croatia
3/100
Third part of the new carpet is ready.
For my birthday, my best friend bought me Lego-sunflowers. I put them in a vase on my desk along with my pink and white Lego-tulips. Ever since I got them, I've been watching them every day while doing homework and other activities on my desk. Therefore, they inspired me to make this drawing. Along with the sunflower and the tulips, I drew daisies and forget-me-not flowers because they're my favorite. I think Lego should make lego versions of those flowers too, so that my bouquet of lego flowers could be complete.
Alexandra Škifić, Croatia
5/100
New life
There was once a factory - Arena Trikotaža. It no longer exists. The machines that made clothes no longer exist. Memories of hard-working hands and the broad smiles of the workers wander through empty halls.
Other people will move into the empty rooms of the factory. Voices and laughter will be heard again.
Once upon a time there was a carpet, made by an infinite number of hands. It no longer exists. Only fragments and memories of the hard-working hands that made it remain.
A new carpet will be made, made of love and imagination. Once again, it will connect people with its warmth.
Filip Dzida, Croatia
6/100
"Love connects"
Leonarda Milat, Croatia
7/100
Lyrics to the song ‘Einem Kinde im Dunkeln’ by Mascha Kaléko
Gib mir deine kleine Hand.
So, nun bist du nicht allein.
Kind, du sollst nicht einsam sein
Mit dem Schatten an der Wand.
Fällt der Abend auf die Welt,
kühlt die Sonne langsam aus.
Schläft die Wolke hinterm Haus,
Nicken Blümlein auf dem Feld.
Sternlein glimmen langsam schon,
Wind nach unserm Fenster zielt.
Und der Abendengel spielt
Mit dem blassen Mondballon.
Leise, leise rauscht der Baum....
Bäumlein sinkt. Nun ruhst du brav.
Segne dich ein guter Schlaf,
Segne dich ein schöner Traum!
Alexandra Skific, Istria
8/100
Eighth part of the new carpet is ready.
An abandoned house in Istria with all its memories.
Sonja Julia Brhanić
9/10
Nineth part of the new carpet is ready.
"PIECE FOR PEACE"
Evangeline Sophia Parsons
10/100
Tenth part of the new carpet is ready.
"Učkarice Fairies Carpet"
Legend says that since ancient times Učka has been home to fairies known as Vile Učkarice. To demonstrate their power, they built a large amphitheatre (the Arena in Pula) in only one night with stones that they had brought from Učka. When they lost their powers at dawn, the remaining stones fell into the sea and formed the Brijuni Islands.
Ana Cvitić
"Moj papir - My paper"
11/100
"Moj papir - My paper"
We are connecting with each other - 100 different views of our shared world:
The carpet piece is knotted from many individual threads. Each thread must be in the right color and in the right place. Only then does the many loose threads become the durable carpet.
100 new carpet pieces with the shape of the original carpet piece are intended to show how people, like the many individual threads with different cultural and historical backgrounds and their individual stories, can tie together the foundation for a safe, colorful, diverse world at their respective places in life.
Part 1
...the making of...
Part 2
...the making of...
Sven Maričić
12/100
Twelth part of the new carpet is ready.
"3D carpet by Sven"
Elena Poropat
13/100
Thirteenth part of the new carpet is ready.
"SkirtCarpet"
A free interpretation of the carpet by Elena. She said that the pattern looks like a dress. The result is a new floral dress on cardboard and a towel.
Mama
14/100
Fourteenth part of the new carpet is ready.
"Threads of love hold the relationship between mother and daughter together across borders. Germany - Croatia."
Dragica Dorić
15/100
Fifteenth part of the new carpet is ready.
Lace making - an old tradition on the island of Cres
Marta Bochenek & Markus Wimmer
16/100
Sixteenth part of the new carpet is ready.
“Carpet with rooster Filip”
Markus: “Base is nettle dyed with onion skins. The fragment is the fragment of a poured image, fabric paint on nettle."
Happy Place Pula
17/100
The seventeenth part of the new carpet is ready.
"Cake carpet- eat the carpet"
Sylvia Öhlenschläger
18/100
Eighteenth part of the new carpet is ready.
"The story of a family. Let us open our hearts to each other and experience love in all its facets together. Hearts are intact, break and are held together."
Sylvia Öhlenschläger
19/100
Nineteenth part of the new carpet is ready.
"This is my home. I love both of my homes."
Marta Bochenek
20/100
Twenteeth part of the new carpet is ready.
"This is Martha's version of Philipp the rooster. The feathers are made of sewn-on pieces of fabric, so they can move."
Jutta and Claus Pauler
21/100
The twenty-first part of the new carpet is ready.
‘The Linen Trail - German linen meets the Caucasian dragon carpet.’
Barbara Skoravic and Andrea
22 & 23/100
Twenty-two and twenty-three parts of the new carpet are ready.
"Istrian and Persian inspirations"
Marta Bochenek
24/100
Twenty-fourth of the new carpet is ready.
"What you can find on a walk through Vodnjan and what you can do with it..."
Nataša Jovanović
26 & 27/100
Twenty-six and twenty-seventh part of the new carpet is ready.
Sylvia Öhlenschläger
28/100
Dvadeseti osmi dio tepiha je gotov.
‘The toxic banquet of the seas or the silent suffering of the Adriatic.’
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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 online 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?
