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This is the symmetrical knot which is also called the Turkish knot or Ghiordes. The symmetrical knot is both wefts under equal tension, both loops of the knots lying on the same level.
Symmetrical is the knot being used for centuries by Anatolian and other Geometric design. The symmetrical knot is made by inserting the ends of the knot around two warp strands and then drawing them back out side by side in the space between the two warp strands. The latter, on the contrary is better suited to obtain simpler designs, without curves, those in which the elements are rather simplified and stylised and are formed by a network of lines creating points rather than angles, the sides of polygons rather than curves.
That is why the symmetrical knot has been used prevalently by those people that had no need of elaborating complex designs. It is the knot characteristic of the more geometric carpets of Anatolian provenance of Caucasian products and also of most Persian ones. |
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