Hand-Knotted Silk Hereke Chinese Rug, 127 × 178 cm

The piece in short

This Hereke comes from China and measures 127 × 178 cm. That is roughly 2.26 m² of floor, about 4.2' × 5.8'.

Construction

Stated material: silk, silk warp. It is entirely hand-knotted. Pile height is given as 4mm.

Format and use

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

On the knot count

The stated knot density is 800,000–899,999 knots/m². Very fine knotting of this kind takes many times the working hours and shows correspondingly precise pattern work.

How it reads

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