Ahmadi - Persian Silk Qum
Qum is a holy town 140km south of Tehran. Here one finds the tomb of Shah Abbas (1586-1628) the great patron of carpet weaving. These carpets are very tightly knotted and the pile mostly of silk. You can even find extremely fine carpets where both pile warp and weft are of silk. If the pile is of wool there is often silk decor in the details. Qum has a great variation of patterns, Flowers, medallions, cypresses, gardens, hunting scenes, vases and birds. The colours are often reddish brown, dark blue, orange and pink, but somewhere in the Qum carpet you almost always find the colour of turquoise.
2.5x4f - 0.80x1.20m
$ 1200