Hand-Knotted Silk Qom Persian Rug, 150 × 98 cm

The piece in short

A Qom from Iran, measuring 150 × 98 cm. That is roughly 1.47 m² of floor, about 4.9' × 3.2'. Qom is known for very finely knotted rugs, often in silk.

Construction

Stated material: silk, silk warp.

Where it fits

The rug is rectangular. The format suits the space in front of a sofa, a small dining table, or a study.

On the knot count

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

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