{"id":8058,"date":"2016-03-11T06:19:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T19:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=8058"},"modified":"2016-03-11T06:19:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T19:19:28","slug":"embroidery-mythbusting-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2016\/03\/11\/embroidery-mythbusting-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Embroidery mythbusting #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;The linen wasn&#8217;t evenweave, because some of the threads were thick and some were very thin. And there were those slubby bits.&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thread-count0314.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thread-count0314.jpg\" alt=\"determining thread count\" width=\"250\" height=\"241\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2192\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thread-count0314.jpg 250w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thread-count0314-150x144.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>No.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Evenweave does not refer to the thickness of the threads with which the fabric is woven. It has nothing to do with whether some threads are thick, and some threads are thin.<\/p>\n<p>Evenweave refers to the number of threads within a certain measurement. If, over a particular measurement, there are the same number of threads over both the warp and the weft (down and across) the fabric, then it is evenweave.<\/p>\n<p>For example, within a measurement of 1 inch, there might be 25 threads across the weft. If there are 25 threads within an inch measurement on the warp also, then it is evenweave. If there are 25 one way, and 28 the other, it is not evenweave.<\/p>\n<p>Within the measurement, some of those threads might be a little scrawny, and some might be a little plump. This is immaterial (sorry for the pun!), because it is the *quantity* of threads that is important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The linen wasn&#8217;t evenweave, because some of the threads were thick and some were very thin. And there were those slubby bits.&#8221; No. <\/p>\n<p>Evenweave does not refer to the thickness of the threads with which the fabric is woven. It has nothing to do with whether some threads are thick, and some threads are [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-hints-and-tips","category-sewing-tips","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8058"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8062,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058\/revisions\/8062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}