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Salor: A tribe of Turkmen weavers renowned
for their fine rugs and highly evolved designs. The knots
are asymmetric open left.
Saffron: Natural dye use to obtain a
yellow color.
Samarkand: Great Central Asian city,
home of Tamurlane or Timur.
Saph: Several Mihrabs, which indicate
the direction of Mecca, are arranged side by side on a rug
used for prayer.
Saryk: Another tribe of the Turkmen,
weavings are distinguished by the use of the symmetric knot
and often use cotton in the pile.
Savonnerie: Made in France, this is a
hand-knotted pastel rug with a floral medallion set on an
open field with broken borders. This rug is the model for
many of today's Indian and Persian rugs.
Selvedge: The side finish on the sides,
not the ends. Often an extension of the wefting and of similar
colour and materials. Often overcast in goat hair.
Senneh Knot: Persian knot.
Senneh: Fine Kurdish rug.
Shiraz: SW Iran major rug collecting
centre.
Shirvan: East Caucasian fine rugs.
Silk Road: Name for the Mediteranean
- China trade routes.
Sivas: Cenral Anatolian town noted for
floral carpets and centre of a kelim trade.
Soumak (Soumac): This refers both to
the carpets made in the soumac technique and the technique
itself. Primarily practiced in the eastern Caucasus, this
technique produces a flat-woven carpet using weft wrapping
in which wefts are pulled over then wrapped under a series
of warps.
Spanish Knot: An unusual variation of
the Turkish knot. A knot is tied on every other single warp
thread with knotted warps alternating on each row.
Spinning: The process whereby a continuous
thread is formed by twisting fibers together. The twist may
be imparted by the rotation of a weighted rod (drop spindle)
suspended from the thread. Alternatively, the rod may be attached
to a rotating wheel driven by hand (spinning wheel) or a machine.
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