A polyethylene terephthalate-based woven hook-and-loop fastener which contains, as a woven base fabric, a fabric having a multifilament yarn made of polyethylene terephthalate as a warp yarn and a polyester-based heat-fusible multifilament yarn as a weft yarn, in which a monofilament yarn made of polyethylene terephthalate is woven in parallel with the warp yarn into the woven base fabric, a hook-shaped engaging element formed from the monofilament yarn and rising from the surface of the woven base fabric exists on the surface of the woven base fabric, and a root of the hook-shaped engaging element is fixed to the woven base fabric by a melt-solidified product of a heat-fusible component of the heat-fusible multifilament yarn, in which a melting peak temperature of the warp yarn by DSC measurement is in a range of 251.0 to 257.5? C.

A method of making a sheet-form loop-engageable fastener product includes placing a layer of staple fibers on a first side of a substrate, needling fibers of the layer through the substrate to form loops extending from a second side of the substrate, removing end regions from at least some of the loops to form stems, and forming loop-engageable heads at free ends of at least some of the stems.

The invention relates to a fabric which can attach to itself by use of hand pressure, and methods for its manufacture. The invention provides a fabric having at least part of its surface covered with small monofilament loops. The self-attaching fabric having at least part of its surface covered with small monofilament hooks which removably engage each other when the surface is pressed into contact with another similar surface to retain together the two portions of the fabric until they are separated by a peeling action.