What is the Hamadan Weave?

Rug Structure: What is the Hamadan Weave?
The Hamadan Weave is single wefted. There is one heavy weft between each row of knots and the warps lace around the wefts.
Rug Structure: What is the Hamadan Weave?
Here we can see the classic heavy single wefts of the traditional Hamadan.
Rug Structure: What is the Hamadan Weave?
“Sennah Baft” or Hamadan Rug Weave

Single weft is called “Sennah Baft” or Hamadan weave. Here the wefts are rigid and the warps are sinuous. As you can see in the sketch the wefts are heavier than the warps. It is woven with symmetrical knots. Since there is only one shot of weft between each row of knots this shows every other warp which makes these rugs easy to spot.