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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 THE CURRENT OWNER JUAN CARLOS Barrientos
Fragment #93 of the replica of famous 400-year-old Dragon Carpet began its global journey by being a guest of the European Heritage Volunteers Network and the Open Air Museum of Lithuania (Lietuvos Liaudies Buities Muziejus). This momentous occasion took place at the 2023 European Heritage Volunteers Conference “Heritage and People," hosted by the Open Air Museum of Lithuania in Rumšiškės, Lithuania, on the 6th of October, 2023. The event was part of the 3-day “Heritage Forum” jointly organised by the Open Air Museum of Lithuania and the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania.
The fragment was introduced to an audience comprising heritage professionals and representatives from heritage institutions and organisations across Europe who attended the conference. They learned about the rich history of the carpet and the profound symbolism behind its journey. Juan Carlos Barrientos presented the carpet, and it was greeted on behalf of the event by Gita Šapranauskaitė and Aistė Lazauskienė, Director and Deputy Director at the Open Air Museum of Lithuania resp., by Sigita Bugeniené, Advisor at the Cultural Heritage Policy Group of the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania, and Bert Ludwig, Director of European Heritage Volunteers, who extended their warm greetings to the project CulturalxCollabs. Weaving the Future.
In the upcoming months before the time is due to pass the carpet fragment to the next collaborator, the carpet will travel to Honduras to meet with the famous Lenca indigenous women weavers of Intibucá, as well as meeting the heritage authorities of Honduras.
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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.
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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?
