An object is to provide a cloth tape having flame retardancy and a fiber product, and means for achieving the object is a cloth tape formed from an organic fiber, which has an afterflame time of 2.0 seconds or less, as measured in the flammability prescribed in JIS L1091-1999 A-4 method (12-second heating method).

A textile fabric, sleeve formed therefrom, and methods of construction thereof are provided. The fabric forms an elongate wall constructed from lengthwise extending warp yarns woven with widthwise extending weft yarns. At least some of the warp yarns are electrically conductive and have a first diameter. The weft yarns have a second diameter that is at least 25 percent less than the first diameter of the warp yarns. As such, the conductive warp yarns are brought into closer proximity with one another than if the weft yarns were the same diameter as the warp yarns. Accordingly, the ability of the fabric and sleeve formed therewith to provide shielding protection against EMI is enhanced.

A knitted sleeve for routing and protecting elongate members and method of construction thereof are provided. The sleeve includes an elongate, knitted wall having a circumferentially continuous, tubular outer periphery extending along a central axis between opposite open ends. The wall includes knitted shrinkable yarn and knitted non-shrinkable yarn. The shrinkable yarn provides the wall with an ability to be radially constricted from a first, diametrically enlarged state to a second, diametrically shrunken state, wherein said shrinkable yarn and said non-shrinkable yarn are knit in alternating groups of courses with one another.

A fabric with wefts that include hard yarns and elastomeric yarns in a predetermined arrangement such that at least one hard yarn is alternately arranged with at least one elastomeric yarn, the elastomeric yarns having a greater shrinkage ratio than that of the hard yarns; the hard yarns form under portions and over portions with respect to warps, the under portions being formed when the hard yarns pass along the back side of the warps and defining loop portions, and the over portions being formed when the hard yarns pass along the front side of the warps and define connection portions, wherein for each hard yarn, the number of warps passed by the loop portion is at least 6, and the elastomeric yarns form under portions and over portions with respect to the warps in a weave that is tighter than the weave of the hard yarns.

A woven fabric that includes a plurality of warp yarns and a plurality of stretch weft yarns. In one embodiment, all of the weft yarns have the same shrinkage ratio and same size of yarn count, and the repeat intersection points on the weft yarns are either 61 or 131. The weft yarns in the 61 pattern alternate with the weft yarns in the 131 pattern, with two 61 weft yarns followed by one 131 weft yarn. This results in a woven fabric that performs like a knitted fabric but with the look of woven denim when the warp yarns are indigo dyed.

A three dimensional weave fabric material is disclosed for use in producing woven hats and other items. The three dimensional weave fabric material having two layers of material, a face layer and a back layer. The face layer and the back layer are then woven together via floating threads to create predetermined patterns or areas where the two layers are not woven together. These areas which are not woven together create tubes. Specifically, the weaving is controlled by a computer program that will weave or not weave the two layers together. Once the weaving is complete, the three dimensional weave fabric material may be subject to post processing such as heat. The three dimensional material is then assembled to produce a woven hat.

The present invention provides multicomponent fibers designed to curl in response to external stimuli such as heat or moisture. The multicomponent fiber can have cross-sectional area comprising the first polymer component and the second polymer component, wherein the first polymer component and the second polymer component are configured in an eccentric sheath/core arrangement and wherein the core component has a non-circular shape. Also, the multicomponent fiber has a first cross-sectional center of mass and a cross-sectional periphery, the core component has a second cross-sectional center of mass; and the second cross-sectional center of mass is positioned from about 20 percent to about 70 percent of the distance from the first cross-sectional center of mass to a point on the cross-sectional periphery. Furthermore, the present disclosure provides a fabric including a plurality of multicomponent fibers designed to curl in response to external stimuli such as heat or moisture.

A woven fabric to facilitate formation of embellishments such as pleats has a plurality of warp and weft yarns interlaced with each other, wherein some of the plurality of warp yarns 10 are strands of shrinkable warp yarn 21 that shrink in a lengthwise direction thereof more than the other warp yarns when subjected to a specific process, the shrinkable warp yarns 21 have, at least in one section in the lengthwise direction, a first leap portion 21J leaping over a first predetermined number of adjacent weft yarns 12, and a plurality of the first leap portions 21J are positioned in a first predetermined pattern. Shrinkable weft yarns 22 that shrink in a lengthwise direction thereof more than the other weft yarns when subjected to the specific process can be used in some of weft yarn 12.