Qom Persian Rug — hand-knotted, 200 × 135 cm, Silk

The piece in short

Origin Iran, format 200 × 135 cm — a Qom made entirely by hand. That is roughly 2.7 m² of floor, about 6.6' × 4.4'. 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 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. A knot count at this level belongs to the upper quality class of handmade rugs.

How it reads

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