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Tools 'N Tips:  Rugs and Oriental Rugs Resources

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The two most common types of Oriental carpet knots are called Turkish (sometimes called a "Ghiordes" knot), and Persian (sometimes called a "Senneh" knot). These terms generally have nothing to do with a carpet's ethnic or geographic origin. The Persian knot (above left), often asymmetrical in structure, the supplementary weft yarn passes behind one warp yarn, and the two ends emerge on either side of a warp yarn.

In the Turkish knot (bottom left), often symmetrical in structure, the supplementary weft yarn passes over the two warp yarns, and emerges to form the pile coming between them.