Hello,

14ct. White fabric listed because the entire piece of fabric is stitched so you will be stitching that background with the colors listed on the chart. You can always use a different color fabric and then not stitch the background if you choose to. We carry some overdyed linen and some marbled fabrics but we do not have a huge selection of those. You can check out what fabrics we have by going to our Fabric Page on the website :) Hope this helps!

~Kristi @ ECS

This guy is a cutie. If it were me I would choose a darker fabric like tan or denim blue and not stitch the entire background.

In my opinion, and that is all it is: By stitching the whole thing, you will have a frame that looks old, as well as the back ground. I don't know if picking a different color material, so you don't have to stitch all of it, will give it such a pretty effect. I like the old framing look. But with any thing you do, it is yours to do what you will. Cross stitching is an art. You are the artist.
Adele