Balanced fabric#Even-weave

A balanced plain weave is a fabric in which the warp threads and the weft threads are equally spaced, and are identical or similar in size.{{cite book | title=The Primary Structures of Fabrics: An Illustrated Classification |first=Irene |last=Emery |date=1980 |publisher=The Textile Museum }}{{rp|76}} In addition to the same sett, the yarn is the same in the warp and weft.{{cite book |last1=Sutton |first1=Ann |title=The Structure of Weaving |date=1982 |publisher=Hutchinson |location=London |isbn=0091495008 |page=9 }} The term can be used for a tabby weave{{rp|86}} or a basketweave.{{rp|88}}

Balanced weaves have also been called "50/50 plain webs",{{cite book |last=Black |first=Mary E. |title=New Key to Weaving: A Textbook of Hand Weaving for the Beginning Weaver |date=1957 |publisher=The Bruce Publishing Company |location=New York |pages=51–52 |lccn=57-12564}} and are a subset of plain weaves. Unbalanced weaves, in which warp and weft differ in size, may be either warp-dominant or weft-dominant fabrics.{{cite book |last=Mitchell |first=Syne |title=Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom |date=2015 |publisher=Storey Publishing |isbn=9781603429726 |page=32 }} The primary advantage of balanced weaves is that they are potentially stronger than other basic weaves.{{cite web |title=Textile - Basic weaves |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/textile/Basic-weaves |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=20 March 2019 |language=en}}

An even-weave fabric or canvas, a term mostly used in embroidery, is any textile where the warp and weft threads are of the same size.{{cite web |title=Even Weave|url=https://trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/materials/woven-and-interlocking-materials/even-weave |website=The Textile Research Center|access-date=25 July 2019 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Burnham |first1=Dorothy |title=Warp and Weft: A Textile Terminology |date=1980 |publisher=Royal Ontario Museum|location=Toronto|page=1}} 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.

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• {{cite book|author=Bath, Virginia Churchill|title=Needlework in America|publisher=Viking Press|date=1979|isbn=0-670-50575-7|url=https://archive.org/details/needleworkinamer1997bath|url-access=registration}}
• {{cite book|author=Caulfield, Sophia Frances Anne|author2=Saward, Blanche C.|name-list-style=amp |title=The Dictionary of Needlework|date= 1885|url=https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The%20Dictionary%20of%20Needlework&from_new_nav=true}}
• {{cite book|publisher=Reader's Digest Association|title=Complete Guide to Needlework|date=1979|isbn=0-89577-059-8|url=https://archive.org/details/readersdigestcom00colt|url-access=registration}}

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• {{cite web|url=http://www.needlework-tips-and-techniques.com/embroidery-fabric.html |title=Embroidery fabric for counted thread projects|website=Needlework Tips and Techniques}}

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