Even though rug weaving in Qom started almost seventy years ago, it gained widespread recognition and fame for the attractive designs, agreeable colors, and nice texture of its rug within Persia and in all the other parts of the world. For this reason, the rugs are woven in the nearby cities of Saveh and Shahreza sometimes are traded under the name of Qom.

After the Second World War, rug weaving in Qom started on commercial grounds, and its fame increased rapidly as the colors, the fibers and the dyes used for weaving were good quality.

In the past and at present, Qom is one of the most important centers for producing silk, down, and silk-touch rugs. Warp and weft are mainly of very finely spun cotton. In silk rugs, the weft is also of silk.

The rugs are woven in the Persian knots with 2,500 up to 10,000 knots per square decimeter. Silk rugs even more than this. The color of the rugs woven in Qom is as vast and various as its designs.

The dyers utilize natural or steady chemical color, preferably pastel, turquoise, mustard, golden yellow, bright red, dark blue, and beige.

Instead of drawing and designing their patterns, the weavers prefer to change slightly the design of the rugs which has a great demand in other weaving centers of Persia. In this case, one can by mistake, identify a rug or a carpet of Qom as a rug of Kashan or Isfahan but this error never occurs in Tabriz rugs as these are always woven with "Ghiordes" knots whereas the weavers of Qom utilize the "Senneh" knots.

The designs which are mostly used are repeated panels, paisley (Botteh) profusion, tree design, Shah-Abbasi medallion and corner, overall Shah-Abbasi, Moharramat open ground medallion, inscriptive Mehrabi repetition.