{"product_id":"same-komon-silk-rug-japanese-sharkskin-180x120-cm-16573","title":"Samé Komon Silk Rug Japanese Sharkskin 4 × 6 ft (180 × 120 cm) Rosewood | 16573","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:800px;margin:0 auto;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#222;line-height:1.6;padding:25px;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cheader style=\"text-align:center;margin-bottom:40px;border-bottom:1px solid #ddd;padding-bottom:30px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"color:#8b0000;font-size:0.75rem;letter-spacing:3px;text-transform:uppercase;margin:0 0 15px;\"\u003eDjoharian Design · Samé Komon · Japanese Kimono Pattern\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 style=\"font-weight:300;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:2px;font-size:1.6rem;margin:0;\"\u003eSamé Komon Silk Rug\u003cbr\u003eJapanese Sharkskin Design · 180 × 120 cm · Rosewood\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHeritage and Design Idea\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSamé komon\u003c\/strong\u003e (鮫小紋) is one of the classic Edo \u003cem\u003ekomon\u003c\/em\u003e patterns — the micro-scale repeats that ordered formal dress in Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate. \u003cem\u003eSamé\u003c\/em\u003e is the Japanese word for shark, and the pattern renders the texture of sharkskin: not the markings of any one species, but the dense, granular surface of the hide itself, translated into fanned, arcing rows of minute dots. It is a pattern built from a single element, repeated with discipline and set in motion by the curve of its rows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnder the shogunate the great houses each claimed a komon as a \u003cem\u003etome-gara\u003c\/em\u003e — a designated pattern reserved to that family alone. Samé was held by the Kii branch of the ruling house, seated at Wakayama and one of the three senior lines from which a shogun could be drawn. What began as a mark of rank became, over two centuries, the most quietly prestigious pattern in the Japanese wardrobe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a second resonance in the name. In the same period, ray and shark hide — \u003cem\u003esamegawa\u003c\/em\u003e — was the material wrapped around sword grips for purchase and durability. The samurai class knew this texture by hand as well as by eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Discipline of Restraint\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdo-period sumptuary edicts repeatedly barred the merchant class from visible luxury: no bright silks, no gold, no display. The response was to drive luxury inward. Cloth of extraordinary cost that looks unremarkable from across a room. Linings finer than the outer garment — \u003cem\u003eura-masari\u003c\/em\u003e, the better side turned in. Refinement legible only to someone standing close enough to read it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat restraint has a name in Japanese aesthetics: \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eiki\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e. It is the same instinct that governs a well-made minimal interior today — the conviction that quality should be discovered rather than announced. A samé komon rug is not quiet because quietness was cheaper. It is quiet on purpose, at considerable expense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom Stencil to Knot\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn cloth, the pattern was printed with stencils cut in Ise — layered \u003cem\u003ewashi\u003c\/em\u003e paper cured with fermented persimmon tannin, then perforated dot by dot with a semicircular gouge in the \u003cem\u003ekiribori\u003c\/em\u003e technique. A fine samé stencil carries tens of thousands of individually punched holes. Rice paste was pressed through it as a resist, the cloth dyed, the paste washed away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn a hand-knotted rug the dots cannot be printed. They must be knotted — which means that \u003cstrong\u003ethe resolution of the pattern is the knot density\u003c\/strong\u003e. This is the point on which the whole design turns, and it is why we produce it in four distinct qualities rather than one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eQuality Lines — How Much of the Fan You Can See\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe defining feature of samé komon is not the dot. It is the \u003cstrong\u003efanned arc\u003c\/strong\u003e: the dots are set in curved, sweeping rows, and it is that curve which separates samé from every other dotted komon. A curve cannot be knotted freely — it has to be approximated on the grid of warp and weft. The finer the grid, the truer the arc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe four Djoharian Design lines are graded by knot density, not by material, and on this design the ladder is unusually literal. Each step buys back more of the historical drawing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNaturals · 60 kpsi (knots per square inch)\u003c\/strong\u003e — the dots are fully present and the arcs are suggested rather than stated. The field carries a soft undertow of movement that the eye registers before it identifies. The most contemporary and most graphic reading of the motif.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eElegance · 80 kpsi\u003c\/strong\u003e — the sweep begins to declare itself; the rows read as rows.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLuxury · 100 kpsi\u003c\/strong\u003e — the fan is clearly drawn and the composition takes on the rhythm the historical pattern was built around.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eExecutive · 150 kpsi\u003c\/strong\u003e — full \u003cem\u003egoku-zame\u003c\/em\u003e, extra-fine shark: the arcs resolve as cleanly as the Ise stencil cutters drew them, with the dot scale the Edo dyers intended.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece is hand-knotted in the \u003cstrong\u003eNaturals\u003c\/strong\u003e line at \u003cstrong\u003e60 kpsi\u003c\/strong\u003e — the open reading, where the dot field dominates and the fan stays a quiet suggestion beneath it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eMaterial and Light\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-knotted in \u003cstrong\u003e66% pure silk and 34% Tibetan highland wool\u003c\/strong\u003e on a cotton foundation. The blend is deliberate: the wool carries the body and resilience the floor demands, the silk carries the light. At this ratio the piece behaves like a silk rug and wears like a wool one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSilk fibre reflects along its length, which makes the pile directional. The cream dots shift between chalk and champagne as you cross the room, and the rose ground moves with them. In an interior kept deliberately spare, this makes the floor the element that changes through the day — a quality no printed textile and no machine-made rug reproduces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe weave is exceptionally dense for its line, and the piece is robust in proportion. This is not a rug that has to be protected from its own room. It can be laid in a hallway, an entrance or any regularly used area without special caution: the silk supplies the light, the Tibetan wool and the tight knotting supply the wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eColour and Abrash\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA muted \u003cstrong\u003erosewood\u003c\/strong\u003e ground — an old rose greyed and warmed until it sits closer to timber than to pink — carrying dots in \u003cstrong\u003ecream\u003c\/strong\u003e that take a champagne cast where the silk catches light. The palette sits deliberately close together: this is a low-contrast composition, and the pattern reads as texture before it reads as decoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece is woven with pronounced \u003cstrong\u003eabrash\u003c\/strong\u003e — the horizontal variation in tone that arises when yarn is dyed in separate lots. In Persian weaving abrash is the signature of hand work; here it is produced deliberately rather than tolerated, and it moves across the ground in broad, soft bands. The Japanese eye reads the same quality as \u003cem\u003ebokashi\u003c\/em\u003e, gradation, and as the \u003cem\u003ewabi-sabi\u003c\/em\u003e preference for the irregular over the machined. Two traditions arriving at one conclusion. The dot grid holds the composition steady while the colour breathes across it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe design is produced in four settings: two evenly dyed and two, including this one, with strong abrash.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003ePresence in the Room\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt \u003cstrong\u003e180 × 120 cm (4 × 6 ft), 2.16 m²\u003c\/strong\u003e this is an accent format. The design was drawn for interiors that have already removed everything unnecessary:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJapandi:\u003c\/strong\u003e Japanese in origin, Scandinavian in effect — warm, low-contrast, structured without ornament. It gives a room built on oak, linen and plaster the one layer of pattern it can carry.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMinimalist interiors:\u003c\/strong\u003e where a figurative rug would break the discipline, a komon holds it. The repeat is architecture, not illustration.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHallway, entry, bedroom and study:\u003c\/strong\u003e dense enough for the routes through a home, and quiet enough for the rooms at the end of them. It works beside a bed, in a \u003cem\u003egenkan\u003c\/em\u003e-style entry, along a corridor or under a desk — wherever a floor is walked on and seen from close range.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eBespoke Commissions\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis design is part of our \u003cstrong\u003emade-to-order Djoharian Design\u003c\/strong\u003e programme. Adjustable to your project:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e on request — any custom dimension\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eColour\u003c\/strong\u003e matched to Pantone or RAL specification, drawn from over 1,200 yarn shades, in even or abrash settings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuality line\u003c\/strong\u003e — Naturals (60 kpsi) · Elegance (80) · Luxury (100) · Executive (150)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial\u003c\/strong\u003e — silk and wool blends, pure silk, mohair, cashmere\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eScale of the repeat\u003c\/strong\u003e — the dot grid can be enlarged for larger formats so the optical balance holds at room size\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e30 × 30 cm reference sample\u003c\/strong\u003e for sign-off before full production\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLead 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is a \u003cstrong\u003eLabel STEP certified dealer\u003c\/strong\u003e for fair-trade knotted rugs — a commitment to dignified working conditions and against child labour in rug production. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/label-step.org\/dealers\/djoharian-teppiche\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eVisit the Label STEP entry for Djoharian Teppiche →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eDjoharian — Specialists in Fine Hand-Knotted Rugs\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFounded in 1967, with roots in the Grand Carpet Bazaar of Tehran and more than five decades of experience in the international rug trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eService and Delivery\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery piece in the Djoharian Collection is expertly inspected in our atelier in Lohr am Main, professionally washed and shipped with a \u003cstrong\u003ecertificate of authenticity\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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