Regarding **tying of ṣiṣiyyot**, I have always just autopilotted the winding direction, and when I took a picture of three different ways of tying (my Molcho tying to the left, a Judaica shop's 7-8-11-13 in the middle, my fudging Ashkenazi 7-8-11-13 on the right), I noticed that I wind the opposite way from people in Judaica shops. Double-checking things, I then scoured Google for information, only to find that both directions are allowed in principle, but "most" do clockwise. Then I checked Talled di Seta's website, and they do the same as me, with the spiral ending up as a \ rather than a /. Does anyone have any input on this in the Spanish and Portuguese tradition (and maybe also Italian, Maghrebi and/or Ottoman traditions)?