LEATHER-LIKE PILE FABRIC AND PRODUCTION THEREOF

摘要

PURPOSE:To obtain the subject light fabric having a touch similar to a high- quality natural leather, excellent in clothing comfort and suitable for a high- grade clothing such as a coat by piling long straight hairs and short down hairs and sharpening the top part thereof. CONSTITUTION:A straight hair-like pile component composed of a high alkali- resistant polyester-based fiber having the top part sharpened is blended with a down hair-like pile component composed of another polyester-based fiber having an alkalline resistance lower than the former polyester fiber to obtain a pile yarn. The resultant pile yarn is knitted and the back surface thereof is subjected to backing processing to form a layer 5. The pile surface is then subjected to hair arrangement treatment and an alkalline treatment preferably having 100-500 poise viscosity is subsequently applied to the piled surface to sharpen the top of the down hair-like piles 3 and to shorten the length thereof preferably to <=70% of the length of the straight hairs 2. An objective pile fabric 1 is obtained thereby.