Cross-stitch on even-weave fabric, Hungary, mid-20th century
Even-weave fabric or canvas is any woven textile where the warp and weft threads are of the same size.
Even-weave fabrics are typically required as foundations for counted-thread embroidery styles such as cross-stitch, needlepoint, and blackwork so that a stitch of the same "count" (that is, crossing the same number of fabric threads) will be the same length whether it crosses warp or weft threads.
Even-weave fabrics include even-weave linen, aida cloth, and needlepoint canvas.
References
- Readers Digest Complete Guide to Needlework, 1979, ISBN 0-89577-059-8.
- S.F.A. Caulfield and B.C. Saward, The Dictionary of Needlework, 1885.
- Virginia Churchill Bath, Needlework in America, Viking Press, 1979 ISBN 0-670-50575-7.
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