Hand-knotted rugs are made by tying yarn around the rug’s foundation fiber. From the back, a hand-knotted rug will have indentations or rows that travel from one end of the rug to the other. The loomed rug may have a colored fiber to distract your eye, but the row on the back will go side to side
What is the difference between hand woven and hand knotted rugs?
Hand-knotted rugs are thousands or millions of knots individually tied to a foundation. Hand-woven rugs are often referred to as “flat weaves” because they’re, well, flat. They are woven more like a basket, which means the front and the back look the same, making the rug reversible. They have no pile or actual “knots.”