Image Phoebus Foundation©

The head office of Katoen Natie appears not to be a normal office building. Hidden treasures are kept in the inner core of the building. Enter the dark room. Who / what do you see here? There is a special carpet on the wall, displayed behind glass. It appears to be depicting a map or landscape, but only fragments are still visible. Evi Olde Rikkert interviews the restorer of the carpet: “This textile has been underground for several thousand years, in Egypt or somewhere along the silk route. Due to the constant climate in the desert and the dry soil it is well preserved. Textiles can normally only withstand a little variation in temperature.” Evi conducts research into what the rest of this landscape would have looked like. A guided tour to explain these findings will take place at the Katoen Natie headquarters the 28th of June, also a 3D model will be on view on a touchscreen to further explore the knotted landscape. 

(collaboration with curator of the textile collection Danaë Vermeulen, Katoen Natie and the Phoebus Foundation, picture of ancient carpet by the Phoebus foundation, other two images are the script/flyer of the guided tour by Evi Olde Rikkert)