Most Hand Woven Rugs are Double Wefted Rugs. That means that when the rug is woven on the loom after every row of knots there are two wefts that hold the rug together.
Sarouk Rug Back with Double Wefts
Virtually all Turkish, Indian, Pakistani, Caucasian, Turkmen rugs are double wefted as are most Persian Rugs.
Here we see a schematic of double wefts before and after each row of knots. The image above is balanced wefting which gives a flat back where both nodes of the knot is visible from the back.
Here we see a schematic of a Bijar Rug weave. One weft is straight and rigid forcing the warps apart onto two planes and then a sinuous weft which hold it all together. As we can see in the top part of the drawing only one node of the knot is visible from the back and the other is buried deep in the foundation
Schmatics from Oriental Rug Technical Recordation
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