Qom Persian Rug — hand-knotted, 170 × 100 cm, Silk

About this rug

This Qom comes from Iran and measures 170 × 100 cm. That is roughly 1.7 m² of floor, about 5.6' × 3.3'. Qom is known for very finely knotted rugs, often in silk.

What it is made of

Stated material: silk, silk warp.

Size and placement

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

Fineness of the knotting

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.

On the colourway

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.