Mohammadi

One of the leading Qom silk families

The Mohammadi family is among the most prominent master weavers of the Qom silk tradition. Its workshop has operated since the middle of the 20th century in Qom (also Ghom), about 150 kilometres south of Tehran. In the 1930s the city was a comparatively young rug centre — all the more remarkable, then, that within a single generation Qom became a global brand for the finest silk rugs, carried by families such as Mohammadi, Jamshidi, and Erami.

The silk rug specialisation

Mohammadi rugs are predominantly pure natural silk — pile, warp, and weft. The resulting knot density reaches 800,000 to over 1,200,000 knots per square metre. The material allows for extremely detailed depictions: hunting scenes with riders and animals, garden rugs with botanical precision, prayer rugs with calligraphy, and figural pieces after Persian miniatures.

Through the silk's sheen the colours feel especially vivid and shift with the angle of light — an effect that Mohammadi rugs show with particular clarity.

Signature and collector value

Every signed piece carries the name "Mohammadi" in Persian script along the lower border. The auction rooms in Hamburg, Munich, London, and New York regularly trade Mohammadi silk rugs in the five-figure range; particularly fine pieces with figural subjects reach the six-figure range.

A field for collectors

Mohammadi rugs are rarely placed on the floor as everyday rugs — their fineness and high silk content make them sensitive to light, abrasion, and moisture. Many pieces are presented as wall hangings or shown in display cases. For collectors of Persian silk art they are, alongside Mohtasham Kashans and the finest Hereke silks, one of the central references.