Qum, Hereke & Isfahan
Silk Garden Paradise Prayer Rug with Cypress and Pond
Silk Rugs · Representative imagery
A representative silk pictorial prayer rug whose arched niche opens onto a paradise garden of cypress and flowering trees, grazing deer and a pond alive with ducks and wading birds. A brimming flower basket crowns the arch and a panel of rose-filled vases anchors the base, all wrapped in a dense polychrome floral border. This luminous garden scene belongs to the finely knotted silk tradition of Qum and Hereke, where the carpet evokes the eternal garden of paradise.
The tradition
Qum, Hereke & Isfahan
Silk rugs represent the finest end of the knotted tradition. Woven in centres such as Qum and Isfahan in Iran and Hereke in Turkey, they use silk for both the foundation and the pile, allowing extraordinarily high knot counts and a level of detail impossible in wool.
Silk's natural sheen makes these rugs shift in colour as you move around them, so a silk carpet reads almost like a changing painting — often hung or used as a showpiece rather than walked on.
Motifs & meaning
Reading the design
Silk rugs carry the classical court repertoire, rendered in the finest possible detail.
Central medallion
The garden pool or dome at the heart of the design.
Fine floral vinework
Scrolling arabesques of the Persian garden.
Hunting & garden scenes
Paradise imagery from the court tradition.
Prayer niche (Hereke)
The directional arch of the finest Turkish silks.
Materials & technique
How it is made
Hand-knotted entirely in silk at very high knot counts, giving the luminous sheen, fine detail and jewel-like colour that define the finest rugs.
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