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Qom Rugs and carpets
Buy a qom is to buy a rug of outstanding quality and beauty. Rugs from the Iranian city of Qom are usually more expensive than other "Persians", with the exception of the carpet from Isfahan, Tabriz, Naina, and several famous rug centers. In Qom producing very small amount of large carpets, but if they do, these rugs need a more highly skilled weavers in the next few years.
While in Qom producing wool carpets, the city primarily known for its exquisite handmade carpets from pure silk. Master Qom using huge range of designs. At handmade rugs from the city can be found medallions, a classic vegetable carvings, flowers, hunting scenes, gardens, birds. In Qom there are no ornaments that are considered traditional for the city, designers and craftsmen here freely enjoy all the cultural heritage of Persian carpet. Their rugs often "signed" by the masters.
There are multiple colors in use, including pink, blue, and shades of ivory, cyan, and even orange. Most workshops are small and bought such a carpet, it is often used on the wall.
Masters of Qom use Persian knot. Rugs density ranges from 500 thousand until 1.5 million nodes per 1 sq. m, but for a price, there is no particular problem and one can buy a rug at much higher density.
"The capital of silk rugs in the city of Qom in central Iran is located about 100 kilometers south-west of Tehran. The city is known at least from the 5th century. There are many engage Safavid rulers of the era. For Shiite Muslims, who account for most of the population of Iran, Qom - holiest city, a place of pilgrimage. Incidentally, it was in Qom born visionary Iranian Islamic revolutionary Khomeini.
As a center of rugs Qom is quite young. Massive rugs production began here in the 30's 20's. And specializing in the silk rugs, the current pride of the city master Qom started in the 60-ies. In contrast to the common Persian traditions new qoms are usually better density, quality than the old ones.
However, the most severe critics believe that the centre of Qom is not as sophisticated as carpet Isfahan, Kashan or Nain. Filtering work of local masters is evident, but some analysts mention that Qom lacks high-designers so one can figure by one design few carpets of different sizes, sometimes in violation of scalability. "I would not like to be too strict, but most are far from the hands of Nain carpets Habibian or serafian of Isfahan," said one expert. However, he immediately recovering : "But the truth is that far from the target are most conventional nains and isfahany." Nevertheless, there are qoms at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars, a price some passes and for a million.
For shape and size, the most qoms - relatively small boxes to 1.5 x 1 m, carpets size 2 x 5 m are already far less frequent.
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