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Many who tried to manufacture hand-knotted Hundertwasser carpets had to destroy their work, because the product neither complied with Hundertwasser’s artistic vision nor met his technical standards. In 1998, however, he gave his Afghan friend Zia Uddin permission to have Afghan carpet knotters manufacture a hand-knotted carpet based on the work 117 Yellow Ships - Sea of Tunis and Taormina, not least because he wanted to support the poor Afghan people. He liked the individual interpretation so much that he agreed to the production of some additional carpets. When Hundertwasser set sail from New Zealand to Europe on board the Queen Elizabeth 2 in February 2000, he took the Afghan knotted carpet based on the work 117 with him and put it on the floor of his cabin.