Hand-Knotted Silk Qom Persian Rug, 117 × 80 cm

About this rug

Hand-knotted in Iran: a Qom of 117 × 80 cm. That is roughly 0.94 m² of floor, about 3.8' × 2.6'. Qom is known for very finely knotted rugs, often in silk.

Construction

Stated material: silk, silk warp.

Format and use

The rug is rectangular. A small format, at home in a hallway, beside a bed, or in front of a bench.

Fineness of the knotting

The stated knot density is 1,000,000+ knots/m². Very fine knotting of this kind takes many times the working hours and shows correspondingly precise pattern work.

How it reads

The stated colourway is red and orange. Handmade rugs always show slight colour shifts from knot to knot — that is a mark of hand work, not a defect.