The field guide · How a rug is built
Double-wefted
A double-wefted rug has two weft shoots after each row of knots. When one shoot is pulled tighter than the other, alternate warps are pushed to a lower level (see depressed warps). Iranica contrasts double-wefted Shahsavan rugs from Sarab with single-wefted Hamadan pieces, and notes three shoots in some Bijar and Kerman rugs. As with any weft count, it is read at an end, not from the back.
Also two weft shoots · multi-wefted · triple-wefted
See also Single-wefted, Depressed warps, Weft
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