Hand-Knotted Silk Qom Persian Rug, 81 × 120 cm

At a glance

Hand-knotted in Iran: a Qom of 81 × 120 cm. The covered area is about 0.97 m² (2.7' × 3.9'). Qom is known for very finely knotted rugs, often in silk.

Construction

Stated material: silk, silk warp.

Size and placement

The rug is rectangular. A small format, at home in a hallway, beside a bed, or in front of a bench.

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 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.