Hand-knotted Qom Persian Rug in Silk, 74 × 57 cm

A hand-knotted Qom rug from Iran, 74 × 57 cm. What marks a Qom is the drawing: crowded, precise, and usually laid out around a medallion or a panelled field. At 700,000-799,999 knots/sqm the pile holds around 316,000 knots in total — well above what a decorative rug needs. Pile 100% silk, warp 100% silk. Silk both in the pile and through the foundation, so the whole rug catches light rather than only the pattern. At 0.42 m² this is a collector’s size. Proportion 1.3:1. One of a kind: hand-knotted rugs are not made in editions, so this exact piece exists once.