On Aug 23, 2004, at 20:07, Weronika Patena wrote:
I'm looking for cheap linen fabric to put lace edgings on. What's the
difference between cross-stitch fabric and normal fabric, and would it make any
sense to put lace edgings on it?
By the time you get to linen fabric for mounting, it's not going to be cheap... :) If you go for the cross-stitch variety, it's likely to be even more expensive; as Adele has said, that is the fabric which has been woven *specially*, so that the number of both horizontal and the vertical threads is the same per inch. That does have a certain advantage for mounting lace projects - you can match a pinhole to every 3 threads, say - but it's not worth the extra expense (IMO). It's far easier on the pocketbook to *pick a fabric which matches the weight of the lace* the best, and compensate for the (slight) discrepancy between the length and width, by easing in the lace into the "short" sides...
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