Hand-knotted Hereke Oriental Rug in Silk, 142 × 102 cm

A multicolor Hereke rug, hand-knotted, 142 × 102 cm. The Hereke idiom is a very high knot count carrying drawing borrowed from Persian and Ottoman court design. Around 1.2 million knots went into this piece (800,000-899,999 knots/sqm) — a density that lets the drawing carry detail rather than outline. Pile 100% silk,, warp 100% silk. 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. A small format at 142 × 102 cm — the size that is usually hung or laid where it will be looked at closely. Proportion 1.39:1. Every rug here is a single piece — there is no second one in this size and colour.