Qom handmade carpets of Iran
Qom has hot and dry weather in summer and mild weather in winter and its lands are flooded by Qom and all kinds of wells are irrigated. For a long time, carpet weaving was common among nomads and villagers around the city, but its urban weaving history is about a century old. Currently, carpet weaving is one of the most important occupations of the people of Qom and its villages, and the silk and wool carpets and rugs are the most important exports of this city.
Fabric elegance, the use of high quality raw materials, beautiful and varied designs, and appropriate and medium sizes are the characteristics of the carpet in this area. Qom carpet is due to the mental weaving of the people of Shahsoun tribe living in the city areas and the efforts of the designers, painters and weavers of the artist.
Features of Qom carpet
The design and role of Qom’s hand-woven fabrics are:
The bergamot is flexible with the flowers of Shah Abbasi, small and large;
Muharrams with beautiful and appropriate coloring;
Altar in its variety;
Hunting ground;
Brick and plant;
Golriz.
These motifs follow the maps of Kashan and Isfahan, but they have undergone fundamental changes, and these changes in the designs have created a new style called the Qom style. Qom carpet is a small piece of fabric and is often woven in the form of a rug with Islamic rotating lines and with a wrong design in an innovative and beautiful way.
Texture: The number of rugs in this area is usually from 40 knots upwards to 6.5 cm. These carpets are fine-grained and are woven with symmetrical and asymmetrical knots and with two weaves.
Raw materials: The most important raw material for carpet weaving, namely wool, is supplied from local spinning mills and around the city, and silk is imported in raw form from other areas, but the operation of turning it into yarns and flowers (carpet pattern) on site. will be done.
Qom carpet in terms of raw materials can be divided into the following types:
Woolen and fluffy rugs;
Silk weaving carpet and silk flower;
The whole silk carpet.
The color used in Qom carpet is light cream, Ronasi lacquer, pea, light and beige beige, brown, crimson, blue in its varieties, pink, earthy, jade green in its varieties, and black with special coordination and using Other colors are used. The color used in carpets, especially in high quality artistic rugs, is herbal, but the use of industrial colors is also common.
Dyeing workshops mostly use herbal dyes, which include pomegranate peel, walnut peel, hair leaf, rhubarb, aspirin, and red seed. Nile colors are also produced in an industrial way with special skills.
In the city of Qom, there is a traditional bazaar for the supply of carpets, as well as maps and raw materials, which are also the gathering place of designers, weavers, painters, and merchants, as well as masters of weaving, weaving, and repairing work. This market has an important role in buying and selling carpets and exporting carpets and creating a change in improving the design, role, color, texture and supply of this hand weaver and the product of local weavers. Qom handicrafts are usually carpets, rugs, and quarters.