Hand-Knotted Qom Silk Rug 82 × 59 cm – antique, elegant, Persian Rug

At a glance

This Qom comes from Iran and measures 80 × 58 cm. That is roughly 0.46 m² of floor, about 2.6' × 1.9'. Qom is known for very finely knotted rugs, often in silk.

Materials and construction

Pile material is given as silk, warp as silk. Construction method: hand-knotted. Weight is given as ap. 2 kg.

Size and placement

The rug is rectangular. Small enough to sit in front of a dresser or just inside a door.

Fineness of the knotting

The stated knot density is 500,000–599,999 knots/m². Very fine knotting of this kind takes many times the working hours and shows correspondingly precise pattern work.

Colour and appearance

The stated colourway is multicolour. Depending on the light and the direction you look from, the surface reads lighter or darker — a property of every handmade rug.

Age

Stated age: antique. In a rug of this age, patina and some pile loss belong to the picture.