Process, step by step
- Dress the loom
- Pass coloured wefts over and under the warp
- Beat wefts close and finish the edges
Variations
Slit, interlocked and dovetailed wefts create different boundaries.
Conservation
Avoid uneven stretching and hard creases.
Used in these crafts
Kilim (Gelim)
A flat, pileless woven textile made across Iran by interlocking or slit-weaving coloured weft threads over a warp, used as floor covering, storage bag, saddle cover and tent divider depending on region.
Zilu (Meybod)
A dense, pileless cotton floor covering woven on a horizontal loom, historically centred on the town of Meybod near Yazd, known for its plain-weave structure and geometric pattern created through warp and weft colour arrangement.