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Even-weave
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Balanced fabric.
Even-weave
An even-weave fabric or canvas, a term mostly used in embroidery, is any textile where the warp and weftthreads are of the same size. Even-weave fabrics include even-weave aida cloth, linen, and needlepoint canvas. These fabrics are typically required as foundations for counted-thread embroidery styles such as blackwork, cross-stitch, and needlepoint, 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.