Very popular in the Seventies and outside North America, the advent of colored mono canvas and the trend towards unworked backgrounds have made it less common. Happily for fans of interlock, Zweigart is now making colored and metallic thread interlock canvas. According to the company, the idea behind the colored interlock was to give needlepointers some of the same options available to cross stitchers. Colored Canvas Zweigart has just come out with interlock canvas in ten colors. These colors are not the same as mono canvas colors.
Light blue is a wonderful bright sky blue, which is quite vivid.
Straw is a great pale yellow which would set off many designs. Metallic Canvas Also new to needlepointers are needlepoint canvases where metallic threads are mixed with the canvas. The picture does not show the little glints of metal present throughout the canvas. These canvases are much softer than the colored interlock canvases, almost like fabric. They will be outstanding for ornaments of all kinds.