The field guide · How a rug is built
Nim-lool (half-depressed warps) نیملول
Nim-lool (نیملول, "half lool") describes a pile rug with half-depressed warps, between level takht-baft and full lool. As with every grade, the weaver sets it through the wefts and the warps show the result. An Iranian study of Qashqai weaving describes two wefts of equal thickness in each row, passed alternately, and a back on which the knots show one large loop and one small. Iranica notes that any depression of the warps partly hides one loop of each knot on the back.
Also nim-lul · half lool · partly depressed warps · semi-depressed warps
See also Takht-baft (level warps), Lool-baft (full lool), Depressed warps, Double-wefted
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