Hand-Knotted Silk Qom Persian Rug, 260 × 200 cm

Overview

Origin Iran, format 260 × 200 cm — a Qom made entirely by hand. It covers approximately 5.2 m², or 8.5' × 6.6'. Qom is known for very finely knotted rugs, often in silk.

Materials and construction

Stated material: silk, silk warp.

Format and use

The rug is rectangular. A size where sofa and armchairs can rest their front legs on the rug.

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 Weiß / beige. Silk takes light differently from wool, so the same area can look pale from one side and deep from the other.