Balanced fabric

A balanced fabric is one in which the warp and the weft are of the same size.

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.

Unbalanced weaves, in which warp and weft differ in size, may be either warp-dominant or weft-dominant fabrics.

[5] 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.

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.