Embroidery on regular linen?

I am new around here, this is my first post! 

I am wanting to try some embroidery (seems there are a few embroidery posts here at the moment).  My question is specific to the type of fabric I need to use...  I would like to use some gorgeous natural coloured linen off the bolt from a local shop, but I wasn't sure if it would work, or if I need to buy a fabric specifically for embroidery.  Will regular linen be OK?

Thanks! Cherry

Here's a link to a similar post in the forum regarding embroidery and linen which you might find helpful: http://sewmamasew.com/forum/index.php?topic=2219.0

Thanks for that- I had missed that other thread.  It answers my question perfectly, so thanks for pointing it out!

Another point I didn't see mentioned on the other thread is that linen designed for embroidery, like Aiden, has an even weave, meaning the density of the horizontal (weft) threads and vertical (warp) threads are the same. On regular linen, 100% linen or a blend, is not. Even weaves are useful for embroidery if you are counting threads, such as making a  cross-stitch x,  you can count over two threads each direction and know your x will come out square. On regular linen, it may end up more rectangular, if you get what I'm trying to say. Some embroidery it wouldn't matter too much. But if you need the even weave but like a regular linen, or need to purchase it for budget reasons, you can use waste canvas while you embroider. Waste canvas is a temporary even weave fabric you place on top of the fabric you're really embroidering and when you're done, you wet it and pull it out from under your embroidery stitches thread by thread. A bit tedious, but useful at times. I've only used waste-canvas for cross-stitch designs and it works really well. If your design had lots of different stitch types going in many directions, it may take a bit more to get all the threads out, being careful of your embroidery stitches. I hope this helped and didn't just confuse you.