Provided is an airbag base fabric that has a low air permeability sufficient to ensure the safety of occupants and heat resistance sufficient to withstand high-power, high-temperature gas generated from a recent downsized inflator, and that is capable of being packaged compactly. Also provided is an airbag comprising the base fabric. An airbag base fabric comprising a synthetic fiber multifilament having a total fineness of 500 to 750 dtex, the airbag base fabric having an areal weight of 225 to 245 g/m.sup.2, air permeability at 20 kPa of 0.2 to 0.8 L/cm.sup.2/min, and edgecomb resistance according to the ASTM D 6479 method of 300 to 600 N in both warp and weft directions.

Provided is an airbag base fabric that has a low air permeability sufficient to ensure the safety of occupants and heat resistance sufficient to withstand high-power, high-temperature gas generated from a recent downsized inflator, and that is capable of being packaged compactly. Also provided is an airbag comprising the base fabric. An airbag base fabric comprising a synthetic fiber multifilament having a total fineness of 500 to 750 dtex, the airbag base fabric having an areal weight of 225 to 245 g/m.sup.2, air permeability at 20 kPa of 0.2 to 0.8 L/cm.sup.2/min, and edgecomb resistance according to the ASTM D 6479 method of 300 to 600 N in both warp and weft directions.

A woven geosynthetic fabric having a weft direction and a warp direction, includes weft yarns woven in the weft direction and warp yarns woven in the warp direction interweaving the weft yarns to form a fabric having comparable modulus; the warp yarns including a high modulus monofilament yarn having a tenacity of at least 0.75 g/denier at 1% strain, at least 1.5 g/denier at 2% strain, and at least 3.75 g/denier at 5% strain as determined in accordance with ASTM International Standard 4595.

A base fabric for an airbag has a puncture load equal to or more than 6.0 N, wherein values obtained by dividing a bending stiffness (method A of JIS L 1096(2010)8.21) in each of a warp direction and a weft direction by a cover factor are equal to or less than 0.030 mm.

A moisture transfer yarn blend and fabric containing a selected of engineered shaped, lobed, deep grooved, channeled, hollow, sheath-core, bi-component polymer silver fibers and bi-component polymer fibers, optionally blended with cylinder or round fibers or natural fibers or a combination. The engineered shaped, lobed, channeled and deep grooved polymer fibers have indentations along the longitudinal side of the fibers. The deep grooved fibers have four to eight deep indentations along the longitudinal side of the fibers and containing grooves in the deepest portion of the indentation.

A fabric-based item may include fabric formed from intertwined strands of material such as intertwined strands of tubing. The strands of material may include electrophoretic ink formed from charged nanoparticles of different colors in fluid. The electrophoretic ink may be contained within strands of tubing or may be enclosed within encapsulation structures such as encapsulation spheres. Encapsulation spheres or other encapsulation structures may be embedded in clear polymer binder within tubing or other strands. Electroluminescent particles may be included in the clear polymer binder. Electric fields can be applied to the electrophoretic ink in a given area of the fabric using conductive strands that overlap the area, using conductive electrodes such as transparent conductive electrodes on strands of tubing, using coaxial electrodes, or using other electrode structures.

In a textile for a non-woven fabric, the obverse surface side on which the non-woven fabric is conveyed is coated with a rubber resin classified into the R group of JISK6397 (rubber having an unsaturated carbon bond on the main chain).

Objects of the present invention are to provide a woven/knitted fabric that does not inhibit movement of the body and that has excellent wearing feel, and is particularly suitable for use in garments, as well as garments using the woven/knitted fabric. Provided is a woven/knitted fabric at least partially including a false-twist yarn composed of an eccentric sheath-core type polyamide composite fiber having an equilibrium moisture content of 6.3% or less, the woven/knitted fabric having a stress ratio at 15% elongation in the warp direction to the weft direction of from 0.25 to 2.0.

Objects of the present invention are to provide a woven/knitted fabric that does not inhibit movement of the body and that has excellent wearing feel, and is particularly suitable for use in garments, as well as garments using the woven/knitted fabric. Provided is a woven/knitted fabric at least partially including a false-twist yarn composed of an eccentric sheath-core type polyamide composite fiber having an equilibrium moisture content of 6.3% or less, the woven/knitted fabric having a stress ratio at 15% elongation in the warp direction to the weft direction of from 0.25 to 2.0.

To provide a towel product capable of maintaining features of honeycomb weave of the conventional technique as well as providing improved water absorbency, lightness, and a good touch feeling more than those of the towels produced by the conventional technique. The towel of the present invention basically has a typical honeycomb weave structure. A first feature thereof is to use hollow yarns having a hollow ratio of a range between 30% and 60%. A shape of hollow yarns can be maintained. With the above described structure, the water absorbency, the lightness, the good touch feeling, and a drying property can be improved. A second feature is to use hollow yarns made by twisting fibers of raw cottons having an effective fiber length of a range between 25 mm and 42 mm. This contributes to maintaining of the durability.