$19,000
This Qum Silk Masterpiece Rug is woven entirely from premium Persian silk with exceptional clarity and an impressive knot count. Signed by the master weaver Eshahgi, it reflects the highest level of Persian craftsmanship with luminous colour, precise detail and elegant design. A rare and refined piece for the collector who values true quality.
Anahita is the Persian goddess of water, fertility and protection. Her sacred river flows through the city of Qum, where this rug was made, and her name is invoked in poetry, art, and textile traditions. It is thought she brings purity to the land and abundance to the people.
This Qum silk masterpiece is named Anahita and channels the symbolism of a life in flow. It is not simply a decorative textile but a refined object linked to a very old belief that beauty itself is a blessing.
110 knots per sq/cm. The finest quality silk rug.
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In the world of Persian weaving there are rugs that are beautiful, rugs that are skillful, and then there are rugs that feel like they carry a spiritual intention.
The ANAHITA Qum Silk Masterpiece Rug sits within that final and rare category.
It is a work of art made entirely from pure Persian silk, knotted at an astonishing rate of one hundred and ten knots per square centimetre, bearing the respected signature of Eshahgi, and created in the historic city of Qum where silk weaving reached its most refined expression.
The Rug Shop is honoured to offer this example online as a definitive piece of Persian art and history.
To speak of the ANAHITA Qum Silk Masterpiece Rug without speaking of Anahita would be incomplete.
Anahita, sometimes called Anahid, is an ancient Persian goddess of water, fertility, wisdom and protection.
She is said to reside in the sacred river that flows through Qum, blessing the land with purity, abundance and renewal.
Her name means mighty and immaculate waters, and she is imagined as both a nourishing mother and a guardian warrior.
The river that runs through Qum was not just a natural feature but was believed to be the earthly presence of Anahita, carrying spiritual energy through the landscape.
This sacred geography is essential to the story of Qum silk because water is not only a physical necessity for dyeing and washing thread, it is the metaphysical element that binds form to meaning, life to art.
Qum became one of the most important religious and artistic centres in Persia.
Weavers in this city did not simply make rugs for domestic use.
They made offerings to beauty, delicate and precise, filled with motifs drawn from gardens, heavens, and metaphysical imagination.
A ANAHITA Qum Silk Masterpiece Rug is part of that lineage.
Silk is spun to a fineness almost weightless to the touch.
Vegetal dyes are applied with mastery so that colour glows rather than sits.
The design is drawn with the clarity of miniature painting, small enough so that every petal, leaf, wave, or lattice reads like a brush stroke rather than a knot.
Pure silk has a quality that wool can never equal.
It reflects light with a shifting softness that feels alive.
In a ANAHITA Qum Silk Masterpiece Rug, this quality is multiplied by both knot density and artistic discipline.
The silk pile is clipped low so that the pattern reads clearly and the light moves in subtle gradients.
The fine thread gives a sense of refinement, elegance, and ease.
The hand is smooth, almost fluid.
It is a textile that feels less woven and more grown.
The design of a ANAHITA Qum Silk Masterpiece Rug often echoes the Persian garden plan.
A central source, surrounded by branching harmony, framed by borders of botanical abundance.
It is not accidental.
Persian gardens were models of ideal existence: ordered, fertile, generous, and contemplative.
The metaphors of water, of flow, of life circulating from a sacred centre, are all in conversation with Anahita, the goddess who gives the earth its rivers, who purifies what is corrupt, who brings fertility to field, mind, and soul.
To see a Qum design is to see geometry working as philosophy.
It is symmetry not for control but for liberation.
Pattern becomes a model of consciousness.
Master weavers of Qum sign their work because it is art made with authorship.
This ANAHITA Qum Silk Masterpiece Rug carries the Eshahgi signature, a mark of precision, confidence, and mastery.
It denotes both provenance and pride.
It tells you that this rug was not made for anonymous trade but created as a work of excellence, intended to be recognised, collected, and preserved.
To own a ANAHITA Qum Silk Masterpiece Rug is to invite elegance rather than extravagance.
Its presence is calm, noble, refined.
It has no loudness.
It has radiance.
The silk moves under light the way water moves under wind.
The pattern feels intelligent, not decorative.
The entire object carries a quiet spiritual dignity, as if the river goddess herself is present within its fibres.
Whether enjoyed for its beauty, collected for its rarity, or appreciated for its mythology, the ANAHITA Qum Silk Masterpiece Rug is one of the highest achievements of Persian weaving.
It is a meeting point of nature, culture, and devotion.
It honours the goddess, the river, the city, the artist, and the hand.
It honours the long memory of a civilisation that believed art was part of the sacred structure of existence.
The Rug Shop is pleased to offer this ANAHITA Qum Silk Masterpiece Rug online, for those who seek not only a fine rug but a work of living heritage, made from the finest Persian silk, knotted at the highest level of technique, and signed by one of the great weavers of Qum.
Can I get the same rug in a different size?
Each of our rugs is an individual, hand made work of art because of that it is not possible for us to have duplicates in different sizes.
How are your rugs made?
All of our rugs are 100% Handmade on a loom. We have created a close relationship with all of the craftspeople who make our rugs which allows us to get the highest quality rugs directly from the people who made them.
Are your rugs new/used?
We offer a variety of both new and used Persian rugs from many areas including Persia, Turkey, and Morocco see below for more info on locations.
NEW: We support over 30 families in Afghanistan who produce the highest quality Persian rugs.
OLD ANTIQUE VINTAGE: We source our used rugs from village and tribal families at source. As well as attend worldwide auctions. We have formed relationships with Persian rug collectors that allow us to get incredible pieces that are not normally on the market.
Can I try before i buy?
We have a “try before you buy” system for approved customers.
Where are your rugs from?
Afghanistan, Persia, Pakistan, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Morocco etc.
