It is an object to provide a woven fabric which can stably form a folding shape superior in shape retention and followability and which can be sewn while maintaining the folding structure, and also to provide a method for manufacturing the same. There is provided a woven fabric having pleats, wherein the height of the pleats is 2 to 10 times the average diameter of yarns arranged in the same direction as the pleats.

Disclosed is a fluidic device including at least: a) a solid matrix; b) a textile component, embedded in the matrix and mechanically cohesive with the matrix; c) at least one channel embedded in the matrix and entangled with the textile component, the channel being at least partly open. A method for making a fluidic device includes providing a textile component including support fibers and at least a movable fiber entangled with the textile, embedding at least part of the textile and part of the movable fiber, in a matrix precursor material, applying a treatment in order to obtain a solid matrix.

Systems and methods for weaving helical carbon fabrics with minimum fiber crimp are provided herein. In various embodiments, small denier natural or synthetic yarns are used in the warp direction to interlace the carbon fiber wefts with minimum deformation. Specific weave designs are used in combination with the small denier yarn to maintain the primary carbon fiber weft and warp un-crimped.

In various embodiments, the present disclosure relates generally to a method for needling a spiral textile to create a needled preform, the method comprising receiving the spiral textile on a bed plate of a circular needle loom, engaging a positional structure of the spiral textile, rotating the spiral textile around the circular needle loom, depositing a predetermined number of layers of the spiral textile on the bed plate, and needling the spiral textile to create the needled preform. Moreover, the present disclosure also provides, in various embodiments, a method for creating a circular needled preform from a spiral textile, comprising attaching sacrificial fibers to at least one of the weft tow and the plurality of warp tows proximate at least one of the inside diameter and the outside diameter, and engaging the sacrificial fibers with an engagement mechanism on a circular needle loom.

A method of making weaving a tubular fabric of particular usefulness in power transmission belting and other technical applications. The method includes weaving a secondary, removable warp yarn along with the primary warp yarn in the region of the edge folds on a shuttle loom. The removable warp yarn may be a soluble or meltable yarn. The removable yarn is removed after weaving, resulting in substantially uniform warp density all around the tubular fabric.

The woven fabric according to the invention comprises a warp and weft yarns, the weft yarns comprise first weft yarns and second weft yarns, the first weft yarns and the warp yarns form a base layer of the fabric, while the at least one plurality of second weft yarns forms an additional layer of the fabric that can be broken under a stress without damaging the base layer to change the appearance of the fabric and of the clothing articles made of said fabric.

A process is described wherein pile yarn is woven with cotton weft and warp yarns to produce terry fabrics, such as towels. The fabric is then washed in warm water to dissolve the PVA fibers. The amount of fibers dissolved, depends upon the count of the yarn or yarns used. By dissolving the PVA fibers, a hollow air space is produced throughout the pile yarn, corresponding to an increase in the air space in the pile yarn. By increasing the air space in the pile yarn, the resulting towels are softer and bulkier than standard cotton towels. The present invention further relates to pile yarn in terry woven fabric (warp yarn), or weft yarn, in the case of flat fabrics.

The present invention relates to air rich yarn and fabric with pores throughout the cross-section. Air rich yarn and fabric have high wettability, easy dryability, quick absorbency and increased thickness. When air rich yarn is used to make terry fabric it makes thicker fabric with increased capacity to absorb water and also release moisture faster while drying.

A method for producing a towel with ultra-long looped piles is provided. First, a looped pile| is woven by using three weft yarns when weaving a towel, a fixed connecting structure for fixedly connecting looped piles is disposed outside every two looped piles| or every three looped piles, and the fixed connecting structure is formed by fixedly connecting 3 to 5 weft cotton yarns. Water soluble weft yarns are disposed between the every two looped piles| or the every three looped piles, and the water-soluble weft yarns are used as weft yarns for separating and fixedly connecting adjacent to looped piles. Then, the water-soluble weft yarns are dissolved in a dyeing and finishing process, so that the original two looped piles| or three looped piles| form one looped pile, thereby increasing the length of a looped pile, so that the towel is fluffy and soft in hand feeling, and is not easily damaged when being hooked.

A 0 unidirectional yarn prepreg and a preparation method are disclosed. The 0 unidirectional yarn prepreg has high-strength filaments which are arranged in parallel to each other in an axial direction X of a winding roller around which unidirectional yarn prepregs are wound and a resin is impregnated. The method includes steps of: (i) weaving a fabric using a thermoplastic film tape as a warp and using high-strength filaments as wefts; and (ii) performing thermal compression on the woven fabric at a temperature in which the warp is melted. Also, a multiaxial prepreg composite material is prepared by simultaneously and continuously supplying the 0 unidirectional yarn prepreg A prepared as described above method and a 90 unidirectional yarn prepreg B prepared by a conventional warping method to a thermal compression roller, and performing thermal compression thereon.