Senneh knot
The Senneh knot is an asymmetrical single knot that is used in the manufacture of hand-knotted oriental carpets .
The wool thread used to produce the pile is looped around two warp threads in such a way that only one end of a knot thread is pulled upwards between the two warp threads, while the other end is led out freely upwards next to both warp threads. The free end of the thread can peek out on both the right and left side of the warp thread, which is called "opening to the right" or "opening to the left". This is significant because certain regions or tribes each use special knots: the asymmetrical knots of Persian carpets mostly open to the left, while in Turkmen carpets the knot often opens to the right.
Although this knotting technique is used in all regions where carpets are knotted by hand, it is often associated with Persian carpets . The term is actually misleading because in the eponymous Persian city of Senneh (today Sanandaj ) the symmetrical "Turkish" knot was traditionally used.
The best way to identify the use of asymmetrical knots when analyzing the structure of the carpet is to open the pile of the carpet perpendicular to the course of the warp threads so that the base of the knot is exposed. It is easy to find out in which direction asymmetrical knots open by determining the side line of the carpet with your hand.
A variant of this knot, in which a pile thread is looped around more than two warp threads, is called a Dschufti knot.
literature
Murray L. Eiland Jr., Murray Eiland III: Oriental Rugs - A Complete Guide . Callmann & King Ltd., London 1998, ISBN 1-85669-132-2 , pp. 45 .