Black Musician Qum
Black Musician Qum
Black Musician Qum
Black Musician Qum
Black Musician Qum
Black Musician Qum
Black Musician Qum
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Black Musician Qum
Black Musician Qum
Black Musician Qum
Black Musician Qum
Black Musician Qum
Black Musician Qum
Black Musician Qum

Black Musician Qum

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A near-black field thick with full-blown red roses, buds and leafy stems, centred on a round picture panel in a gold acanthus frame, with ornamental cartouches above and below it. Inside the panel, against a pale blue sky, a woman in a plumed headdress and pink patterned robe plays a long-necked lute, an open book at her side, with a rose bush on the right and a vine hung with red clusters on the left. A pale blue and ivory border of small flowers runs between narrow guard stripes, closed by a red outer band and silk fringe at both ends.

Hand-knotted in silk. At the lower left, the musician's robe spills out past the gold frame into the rose field, so the portrait is not quite contained by its own border. At 55×77cm this is an extra small rug, made to hang on a wall.

  • Origin: Iran
  • Type: Qum, hand-knotted
  • Material: 100% silk
  • Design: Pictorial musician panel on a rose field
  • Size: 55×77cm (1'10"×2'6") — Extra Small
  • Colour: Black
  • SKU: QA4727
  • One-of-a-kind: Yes

100% silk pile, hand-knotted in Qum, with silk fringe at both ends. Silk is strong in tension but delicate in every other respect — it abrades, it marks with water, and it loses lustre permanently if treated like wool.

This is a portrait and should be treated as one. The musician's face, hands and the strings of the lute are drawn with only a few knots each, and wear on a floor would blur them quickly. The near-black field shows every speck of lint and pale thread, and red silk against black is the combination most at risk if the rug ever gets wet. On a wall, away from direct light, it will stay as it is.

Look at the roses before the portrait. They are not the stylised palmettes and rosettes of a classical Persian field: they are open, many-petalled garden roses, drawn almost botanically, with buds and serrated leaves. Persian weavers call this style gol farang — the 'foreign flower' — because it came into Persian design from European textiles and wallpapers in the nineteenth century, and it is usually set, as here, on a very dark ground so the reds glow. The portrait inside belongs to a different tradition, the Persian album painting of a musician with her instrument and an open book of poems, music and poetry side by side. The weaver has combined the two and then let them overlap: follow the edge of the gold frame at its lower left and you will find the musician's robe crossing it, spilling into the rose field, as if she were leaning out of the picture.

Shipping & Returns

Shipping We offer free shipping on all orders within Japan. Each rug is carefully rolled, wrapped, and shipped fully insured. Orders are dispatched within 1 to 2 business days, with tracking sent as soon as your order ships. Delivery within Japan typically takes 2 to 5 business days.

Returns We accept returns within 7 days of delivery. Items must be unused and in their original condition. To start a return, contact our customer support. For a defective or incorrectly shipped item, we cover the return cost and arrange a replacement or refund. For returns due to personal preference such as size, colour, or a change of mind, return shipping is paid by the customer.

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