Hand-knotted Hereke Oriental Rug in Silk, White and Beige, 123 × 79 cm — 900,000 knots/m²

Hand-knotted: a Hereke rug measuring 123 × 79 cm. Hereke patterns are court patterns: medallions, prayer niches and dense floral grounds, worked at fine density. At 900,000-999,999 knots/sqm the pile holds around 923,000 knots in total — a weave fine enough that the pattern reads like brushwork rather than knots. 100% silk (pile) & 100% cotton (warp). A silk pile shifts tone as you move past it — the same field reads light from one side of the room and dark from the other. At 0.97 m² this is a collector’s size; fine pieces this small are often shown on a wall. Proportion 1.56:1. One of a kind: hand-knotted rugs are not made in editions, so this exact piece exists once.