Hand-Knotted Silk Qom Persian Rug, 305 × 205 cm

At a glance

Hand-knotted in Iran: a Qom of 305 × 205 cm. It covers approximately 6.25 m², or 10' × 6.7'. Qom is known for very finely knotted rugs, often in silk.

What it is made of

Stated material: silk, silk warp.

Size and placement

The rug is rectangular. At this size it anchors a living room as the central surface.

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

Colour is recorded as red and orange. Depending on the light and the direction you look from, the surface reads lighter or darker — a property of every handmade rug.