Even-weave
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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.
[edit] 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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| Components: | Textiles · Warp · Weft · Yarn | |
| Tools and techniques: | Coverlet · Heddle · Ikat · Inkle weaving · Jacquard weaving · Kasuri · Loom · Navajo rug · Shuttle · Tablet weaving · Tāniko · Tapestry | |
| Types of looms: | Dobby loom · Jacquard loom · Power loom | |
