Hand-Knotted Silk Qom Persian Rug, 120 × 80 cm

The piece in short

Origin Iran, format 120 × 80 cm — a Qom made entirely by hand. That is roughly 0.96 m² of floor, about 3.9' × 2.6'. Qom is known for very finely knotted rugs, often in silk.

Materials and construction

Stated material: silk, silk warp.

Size and placement

The rug is rectangular. Small enough to sit in front of a dresser or just inside a door.

Knot density and quality

The stated knot density is 1,000,000+ knots/m². A knot count at this level belongs to the upper quality class of handmade rugs.

How it reads

Colour is recorded as red and orange. Silk takes light differently from wool, so the same area can look pale from one side and deep from the other.