Qom Persian Rug — hand-knotted, 70 × 88 cm, Silk

At a glance

This Qom comes from Iran and measures 70 × 88 cm. That is roughly 0.62 m² of floor, about 2.3' × 2.9'. 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 rectangular. Small enough to sit in front of a dresser or just inside a door.

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.