How should the linen be cut: with the selvages on the right and left?
The question has been most succinctly and best answered by Ginnie Thompson in Second Steps in Counted Cross Stitch: Special Techniques for Linen: “The best Danish linen, often in kits, is truly evenweave and may be worked with selvages at top and bottom.” The linen used in all Scarlet Letter kits is the finest Danish evenweave available on today’s market. Selvages can be top, bottom, right or left, it makes no difference, because this fine linen is truly evenweave.
