Hello all. I am planning on doing another double weave blanket project. I am a new weaver since the beginning of the year. Enjoying the School of Weaving lessons immensely. This project I am using Harrisville Shetland for the warp, and mohair for the weft. These are the exact yarns that Jane has used in her blankets. I see info for mohair/mohair PW setts at 6epi/7ppi; Harrisville Shetland PW sett at 8epi/8ppi and twill at 10/10. Then a Harrisville Shetland/Mohair Twill at 8epi/8ppi.

What about Harrisville Shetland/Mohair PW?

When I did my first double weave blanket I used Jagger Spun Heather 3/8 yarn. I set it for double width at 12epi in the reed, but of course it was woven at 6epi double weave. I had a lot of floats on the underside. I had to re-weave those and they turned out fine. But I'd like to try 8epi(16epi in the reed) for the Harrisville Shetland. It is a little thinner than the Jaggerspun heather. But the Mohair at 7-8ppi may be too much for 8epi..

The other night I wrapped a ruler to see, but with my inexperience with the fulling of these yarns, I don't know which direction to go. For drape I'd probably go with the cloth woven at 6epi/6ppi. For the ease in weaving I'd do the woven 8epi. I've attached pictures of my wraps.

What do you think?

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One image is of 6epi/6ppi shetland/mohair
One image is of 8epi shetland plan without mohair
One image is of 8epi shetland and half wrapped with mohair at 8ppi.

Any thoughts on sett?

Here is my sample of Harrisville Shetland/Brushed Mohair (scarf). I made it successfully in double weave, for the most part. It is doubled up in the 8 dent reed. So on the loom at 16 epi, wove double weave; each layer at 8epi. I used the 3rd season double weave episode as well at the mohair weaving in season 1 to guide me. I think this will work for my double blanket project for my big loom. But I will not do clasping, and I may modify how I manage the fold at the beginning of the weave, depending on any feedback on this thread.

The fold is on the left. You can see that it is fairly loose and may have foretold the issue I found when the piece was off the loom:
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The mohair took some getting used to. I rewatched the bobbin winding tutorial and it was a life saver!!! All was good after that. I am not afraid to double weave with the mohair once I got my bobbins to unwind well (watch the bobbin winding lesson)

The center fold line was too loose in this project. I did a double weave blanket several months ago in the Jaggerspun Heather with great success at the centerline. I followed Janes lesson exactly. I skipped a dent at the fold and had substituted one of the last threads with a slick thread to remove from the weaving when done. It looks beautiful. But on this project the fold is too open and it bulged. I had to really work the weave with my hands to get it to flatten out. the inside fold looks better than the outside of the fold. The mohair eventuated the fold too. I'm thinking of taking a needle to the mohair at the fold to pull it loose some more to see if that helps. Brushing helped some too. I may have woven too loose because the warp was so small, I couldn't really through the shuttle; I just passed it back and forth. The draw in was negligible. That could have contributed to the extra loose fold line. The other thought I had was that the mohair didn't full as much, so didn't close the fold as much as the jaggerspun warp/weft did on my 1st double weave project.

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This shows the lumpy fold at the clasp and at the full width weave without clasp:
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After fulling and a lot of manipulation of the warp, I got this fairly good line at the full woven area (not the clasped area):
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The clasped areas:
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The last thing I wanted to try on the warp was a clasped weft. Right away I could see that this would work differently at the fold, which is where I wanted to place the change of weft. I just jumped the bump and dove the dip at each pass with the 2 shuttles that I had going. When it was open you could see the link, but it washed out pretty good, overall, especially after brushing.

This last picture shows one side that is fairly bumpy at the fold and the other side that was the inside of the fold that looks good. I find that weird:
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Any comments or questions are encouraged and welcomed. Thanks for reading this rather long post.

I finished my big wedding gift blanket in double weave with Harrisville Shetland in the warp and the brushed mohair in the weft. The Harrisville was at 8epi at 16epi in the reed. Due to the double weave it was actually 8epi woven. The ppi was about 7 of the mohair. The project was planne to finish at 100” long. I wove 117” on the loom and it wet finished at 100.5”. Yay. The limit was my width. My loom is 39” wide, so that is what I wove in double weave. Off the loom the width was around 75” wide and wet finished to 70.5”. I was very happy with the results. The techniques that Jane shows in season 3 for double width weaving was perfect. The center fold is perfect. This is the second blanket that I did this way and both are perfect. One thing that happens when using the mohair in the double weave is that the long fibers are pronounced once finished and show up as a line down the centerline. The warp is not an issue, it’s the mohair in the weft I believe. It was there in my sample. I have had better results with picking out the fibers of the Mohair at the fold after it was off the loom. I wonder if others have tried double weave with mohair and if they have the issue with the band of thick mohair at the fold. I will post photos only the blanket when I get to my computer, as I don’t know how to post pics from my cellphone.

Here are some photos of the finished product

Project on the loom:
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This is of the blanket spread out on my queen sized bed:
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Here I folded up the sides to show the slightly rippled salvage that is an improvement compared to a past project, not shown in this thread:
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Good fold line:
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But the mohair shows up at the fold. I'm not sure how to manage this in the future:
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Overall blanket and drape:
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After the tassels were trimmed neatly:
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It looks great! Very nice and a wonderful wedding gift!

Absolutely beautiful on the bed. Colors are so soft.

That is beautiful, Barbara! I was searching here for comments on double weave, and am happy to find your experiences. I am planning to do mine in Harrisville Shetland but wondering if I can use my 6 dent reed. I’ll have to do some ruler wrapping.

Wow, Barbara! First of all, you get an A+++ for documentation. Second, you gave this away??? They must be be extremely weave-worthy! The blanket is so lovely - really good work. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks. It was a wedding gift to my son and daughter in law a year ago. While they drove back to Iowa from NY where they got married my son got Covid. They holed up in an airbnb while he recovered wrapped in this blanket. This past summer I retrieved the blanket and washed it then interred into the Iowa State Fair. I got 3rd place. First place was an incredible blanket made from the owner’s family samoyed dog. Second place went to a lovely twill plaid blanket. I think mine was the only double wide blanket though.