What Count?

Janet Perry has posted about how to figure out the count of a piece of needlepoint canvas. It's obvious to us old timers but not so obvious for beginners, and Janet's included a bit about the tools you can use to determine canvas count, which might be very useful to a shop that needs to do this constantly.
http://www.nuts-about-needlepoint.com/what-mesh-is-it

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