- Large Persian city 90 miles south of
Isfahan. Qum has become a major rug
producing area in the second half of the
20th century. Major production center for
silk rugs. The Zil-i-Sultani pattern is
very common as are designs derivative of
Bahktiarri garden carpets and Isfahan
carpets.
- Important designers included
Rashtehzadeh, Arsalani, and Ahmad Archang
Persian Knot, Depressed Warps
Structure: Asymmetrical knot
open to the left. Knot counts can range from 120
to 900 or 1000
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Color: While Ghom rugs use a wide range of colors
they tend to be brighter and more colorful than
Isfahan or Nain rugs and not quite as rich as a
Kashan.
In the late 50's and early 60's we were
regularly buying in Qum, wool rugs with silk
outlines, wool rugs with silk motifs, silk ground
rugs with wool motifs and all silk rugs. So the
use of silk in a big way seems to have started
well before 1961. At that time I very rarely saw
a Qum with 20x20 kpsi.
Today 26x26 is pretty common and many higher knot
count pieces coming into Pakistan seem to be the
handiwork of half baked weavers/designers. 900
kpsi used to be (occasionally) Uncle Habibian's
and, of course, Aghai Seirafian's preserve, even
his son Sadiq rarely attempted it. New Persian Carpets - Qum,
Kum, Gum - 04/24/2000
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