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Persian · Pictorial
Qum Silk Miniature
£7,800In stock, ready to ship
At 900 KPSI this is closer to painting than weaving. Zahra works four hours a day at most — beyond that, she says, the hands stop being honest.
Uses your phone camera to place this carpet to scale. No app needed.
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Specification
- Origin
- Qum
- Knot density
- 900 KPSI
- Dimensions
- 80 × 120 cm
- Material
- Silk
- Pattern
- Pictorial
- Completed
- 2024
- Time on the loom
- 19 months
The maker
Zahra Hosseini
21 years at the loom in Qum. We have bought from this workshop since 2011 and pay the price they set.
Everything Zahra has woven for usLook closer
Count the knots yourself
This piece is woven at 900 knots per square inch, which works out at roughly 1,339,203 knots in total — every one tied by hand by Zahra Hosseini, over 19 months.
Magnify past 13× and the field stops being a picture and becomes what it actually is: rows of individual knots, each one a decision about colour made at a particular moment.
The same test works in the shop, on any carpet, with no equipment. We wrote up how to do it in the back of the rug tells you everything.
1.0×80 cm across
Woven nearby
Similar origin, weave and palette.
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