The field guide · How a rug is built
Single-wefted
A single-wefted rug has one weft shoot after each row of knots. It is a regional trait: Iranica gives it for the Qaragozlu rugs of the Hamadan area, in contrast to double-wefted Sarab rugs, and the Brooklyn Museum's Senneh rug is single-wefted. A photograph of the back cannot settle the count, because a second, inner weft may never show; check it at an end or a raised edge, in the hand.
Also one weft shoot
See also Weft, Double-wefted, Depressed warps
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