NEW 301 × 200 cm Hand-Knotted Erami Qom Silk Rug “Farshchian – Turquoiseblau Floral” | 70 Raj | approx. 6,020,000 knots | 100% silk on silk

Erami Qom silk, “Farshchian – Turquoise Blue Floral”, 301 x 200 cm

301 x 200 cm, just over six square metres, 70 Raj, approximately 6,020,000 knots, silk pile on a silk foundation. Erami workshop, Qom.

The Farshchian manner

“Farshchian” is the workshop name for drawings made in the manner of the modern Persian miniature – the style associated with Mahmoud Farshchian, in which figures and flowers are rendered with long, continuous curved lines and shading that flows rather than steps. Translating that into knots is difficult in a way that geometric design is not: a miniature has no straight lines to hide behind, so the weave has to be fine enough to follow a curve without breaking it.

Turquoise

Turquoise is the hardest of the blues to hold in silk. It sits between green and blue, so a small shift in the dye reads as a change of colour rather than a change of shade. A turquoise ground across six square metres is a statement about the workshop dye house as much as about the loom.

Placement and care

Six square metres suits a living or dining room. Keep it away from sustained direct sunlight, vacuum with suction only, and rotate once or twice a year.