Rugs from Qom

Qom is a relatively young provenance for Persian rugs. The city of Qom (also Gom, Ghoum, Goum) lies in central Iran, about 100 km south of the capital Tehran. As Qom had no old knotting tradition to build on, patterns were – and still are – adopted from other weaving regions and rendered as the finest silk work. Over time, though, a style of its own has grown from this, and they are known as the Rugs from Qom, which you can browse right now!

In 1979, our father, Ebrahim Zomorrodi, opened a gallery and workshop for hand-knotted Oriental rugs in Düsseldorf.

As children, we used the stacks of rugs to drive our father to the brink of madness with breakneck leaps. The patterns of the Persian rugs were our winding motorways for toy cars.

After university, we were drawn back to stacks of rugs and hypnotic patterns. We are Philipp and Dr. Maurice Zomorrodi and we'd love to pass our enthusiasm for rugs on to you. Our aim in doing so is to combine traditional craftsmanship with contemporary values and designs.