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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.
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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?
