Hand-Knotted Silk Qom Persian Rug, 132 × 203 cm

The piece in short

Origin Iran, format 132 × 203 cm — a Qom made entirely by hand. The covered area is about 2.68 m² (4.3' × 6.7'). Qom is known for very finely knotted rugs, often in silk.

Materials and construction

Stated material: silk, silk warp.

Where it fits

The rug is rectangular. This size typically covers the floor in front of a seating group.

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