Hand-Knotted Silk Qom Persian Rug, 200 × 140 cm

At a glance

Origin Iran, format 200 × 140 cm — a Qom made entirely by hand. That is roughly 2.8 m² of floor, about 6.6' × 4.6'. Qom is known for very finely knotted rugs, often in silk.

What it is made of

Stated material: silk, silk warp.

Format and use

The rug is rectangular. A format for a smaller room, or the area directly in front of a sofa.

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.

On the colourway

It is catalogued under multicolour. Silk takes light differently from wool, so the same area can look pale from one side and deep from the other.