The field guide · How a rug is built
Lool-baft (full lool) لولبافت
Lool-baft (لولبافت) is weaving with depressed warps, and it is made with the wefts. In the three grades takht, nim-lool and lool, full lool (tamam-lool) means one warp of each pair lies almost directly behind the other: a thick weft is laid straight and beaten, then a thin one loosely, and the straight weft holds alternate warps back, so the knots on the back sit in one line and the wefts barely show. Heavy, stiff Bijar rugs have their warps set this way.
Also lool-bafi · lul · lul-baft · tamam-lool · fully depressed warps · double-warped
See also Nim-lool (half-depressed warps), Takht-baft (level warps), Depressed warps, Double-wefted, Bijar
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