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.

The woven fabric (1) according to the invention comprises warp (2) and weft (3, 4) yarns, the weft yarns (3, 4) comprise first weft yarns (3) and second weft yarns (4), the first weft yarns (3) and the warp yarns (2) form a base layer (1a) of the fabric, while the at least one plurality of second weft yarns (4) forms an additional layer (1b) of the fabric that can be broken under a stress without damaging the base layer (1a) to change the appearance of the fabric (1) and of the clothing articles made of said fabric (1).

The present invention relates to air rich yarn and fabric with pores throughout the cross-section. Air rich yarn and fabric have high wettablity, easy dryablity, 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 reinforcement fibrous cord having excellent adhesive strength produced by impregnating a meshed cord fabric formed from warp yarns for reinforcement cords and weft yarns having a softening temperature or a melting temperature lower than any of the softening temperature, the melting temperature and the thermal decomposition-initiating temperature of the warp yarns, with adhesive agent, and heat-treating the fabric at the temperature equal to or higher than the softening or melting temperature of the weft yarn and lower than any of the softening temperature, the melting temperature and the thermal decomposition-initiating temperature of the warp yarns so that the weft yarns are self-broken while being fuse-adhered to the adhesive agent-impregnated warp yarns whereby projections caused by the broken residues of the weft yarns are formed on the warp yarns.

A method of manufacturing an isotropic pitch-based carbon fiber spun yarn fabric includes the following steps of: obtaining composite yarn by winding a water-soluble polymer fiber around a surface of isotropic pitch-based carbon fiber spun yarn; obtaining a composite yarn fabric by weaving the composite yarn; and obtaining the isotropic pitch-based carbon fiber spun yarn fabric by dissolving and removing the water-soluble polymer fiber from the composite yarn fabric.

A web or fabric with variable thickness portions, formed with weft threads (14) and warp threads (4, 5, 6), wherein floating warp threads (6) appear sheared in the lower thickness portions (AB), while the maximum thickness portions (BC) are formed with weft threads (14) and warp threads (4, 5, 6) intertwined with each other. The invention concerns also the loom and the method used to obtain the webs or fabrics as described above.