Hand-Knotted Silk Qom Persian Rug, 201 × 199 cm

At a glance

Origin Iran, format 201 × 199 cm — a Qom made entirely by hand. The covered area is about 4 m² (6.6' × 6.5'). 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 square. Large enough to hold a full seating group.

On the knot count

The stated knot density is 900,000–999,999 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. Depending on the light and the direction you look from, the surface reads lighter or darker — a property of every handmade rug.