Senneh Knot
The Senneh Knot showroom: a wall of rug samples, a sample table and a large hanging abstract rug in red and gold
Est. 1987

Tied by hand, knot by knot.

Handmade rugs, made to be handed down. Bought directly from the weavers and sold in Timonium and Maple Lawn, Maryland, since 1987.

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TimoniumMaple Lawn

Best of Baltimore 2007 · 2015 · 2025

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A red and blue hand-knotted rug draped over a travertine block beside a stack of folded rugs

Every design, every size

Every collection.
One roof.

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How it’s made

Four ways
to make a rug.

Every knot tied by hand around the foundation threads, row after row.

About hand knotted rugs
Aubusson D.Green, 9′2″ × 12′1″, a hand knotted rug, in a studio photograph (illustration)Hand knotted01 / 04

Anatomy of a rug

What a rug is made of.

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  • One rug from our floor, and what it is made of. Choose a part, or separate the layers.

    Rug
    Agra Burgundy
    Number
    10048
    Size
    4′1″ × 5′8″

  • A simplified construction study: the pile you walk on, the knots that hold it, the foundation they are tied to.

  • The centre of this rug, up close. The pile is clipped level once every row of knots is tied. Move the lens to look closer.

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  • Turn the rug over and its whole design is there again, reversed, as a grid of individual knots. The back is where hand knotting shows most plainly.

  • Every knot is tied by hand around the foundation threads, one at a time, row after row, and the design grows upward from them. One way of tying it, the asymmetric knot, is known as the Senneh knot, after the town now called Sanandaj, in western Iran. It is where our name comes from.

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Two rolled hand-knotted rugs in the same Tabriz design, one in taupe and plum, one in ivory and navy, each tied with a paper tag

Made to measure

A rug wovenfor the room.

Any design, in any colour, from 2×3 feet to 14×24 and larger.

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  2. ii.Choose the colours
  3. iii.Give us the size
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The Senneh Knot showroom floor, with rugs laid out, a rack of hanging rugs and walls of samples

Timonium & Maple Lawn

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Walk the floor, feel the pile, and take the one you love home on approval.

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