Water-Soluble Film. Some fabrics and fabric textures, such as knitwear and terry towels, are not easy to embroider. Knitwear is very stretchy and therefore requires stabilising during embroidery. On very coarse knitted fabrics, the stitches tend to sink into the pile, as with terry towels. The embroidered stitches get lost among the loops, which diminishes the quality of the embroidery and is considered a defect by the buyers. There is a way to avoid this inconvenience: AVALON from Madeira, a water-soluble film that has to be hooped on the top of the fabric. Since it lies between the fabric and the embroidery, it holds down the loops of terry fabrics and the pile of knitwear. As a result, the embroidery can be done almost without any additional underlay stitches.