{"id":5802,"date":"2019-03-26T09:32:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argoknot.com\/?p=5802"},"modified":"2025-03-19T07:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T12:03:48","slug":"deflected-doubleweave-as-promised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/argoknot.s005.wptstaging.space\/?p=5802","title":{"rendered":"Deflected Doubleweave, as promised"},"content":{"rendered":"

When deflected doubleweave first became a ‘thing’ I was not interested.\u00a0 Back then it seemed to me that people wove this technique in stark contrasts, pushing the ‘deflected’ bit as far as possible.\u00a0 I remember lots of black white, heavily felted textiles that looked pretty unpleasant to my ‘delicate’ sensibilities!<\/p>\n

Times do change, and this technique has been calling to me for several years now.\u00a0 Everything has its time, doesn’t it?\u00a0 Since I now live in an area where there is a wonderful DDW teacher, as well as a non-profit weaving center where a few accomplished weavers design beautiful patterns that are woven by trained weavers, I have been inundated by beautiful pieces of Deflected Doubleweave. (Check out Hartford Artisans<\/a> for a unique organization where experienced weavers train locals who are considered visually impaired, to weave an array of wonderful textiles.)<\/p>\n

The teacher is Janney Simpson.\u00a0 You can find her article and beautiful DDW scarf in the Nov\/Dec 2016 issue of handwoven.\u00a0 You can also read about her interesting collaboration with weavers in Micronesia<\/a>.\u00a0 I signed up to take a local workshop with her, and then had to miss it at the last minute.\u00a0 Nevermind about that–she gave me the workshop notebook and the yarns she wanted me to use for warp– a deep green merino\/silk zephyr and a deep teal 10\/2 tencel.\u00a0 When I finally got down to it, the project went swimmingly well, apart from the glitches of using a new-to-me Baby Wolf with combby.\u00a0 Since then I’ve done a little a gathering of other DDW resources.\u00a0 I’ve done this to have as a reference for future.\u00a0 If it helps you too, I’m pleased.<\/p>\n

Here is the link<\/a> to Interweave’s digital magazine that includes Janney’s DDW article. If you already have Handwoven magazines in your library, Janney’s article is in the Nov\/Dec 2016 issue.<\/p>\n

And perhap before I get any further down this rabbit hole, I should define this technique.\u00a0 Here is a definition from Madelyn van der Hoogt: “In\u00a0double weave<\/em>\u00a0two layers are usually woven simultaneous, a top and a bottom, while in\u00a0deflected double weave<\/em>\u00a0warp and weft threads of each layer are interlaced. The result is one pattern that produces 2 different looks, one on each side.”<\/p>\n

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Alice Schlein writes about many weaving explorations.\u00a0 You can find her DDW experiments on her blog Weaverly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In one of Alice Schlein’s DDW posts, she mentions using a linen\/cotton yarn from Gist.\u00a0 Alice documents her weaving samples and even the wet finishing.\u00a0 Very helpful!<\/p>\n

A visit to Gist’s website shows they offer a kit for making these two colorways for a wool\/alpaca blend scarf.\u00a0 They offer the pattern as a free download, but I could not find it–only a link to a DDW pattern by Elizabeth Hill that I already own.<\/p>\n

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The pattern from Gistyarn is based on this baby blanket pattern from WEBS.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0I bought this pattern and look forward to making blankets for my three grandchildren sometime in the near future.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Hill has made a couple of videos showing the technique for dealing with selvedges while weaving DDW.\u00a0 This is a 2-shuttle weave, and one of the wefts does not go all the way to the selvedges.\u00a0 You have to decide how to handle that.\u00a0 Janney teaches a method of having two selvedges on each side that I happen to prefer.\u00a0 Elizabeth Hill demonstrates that here.<\/p>\n