Abstract: A human heat transfer article in the form of pads, blankets, or garments which is a bilayer or trilayer lamination, incorporating flexible fluid-carrying tubes, to contact the skin to modulate the flow of heat to or from the human body, and a method of manufacture therefor. The tubes are stress-relieved to prevent their return to their original configuration. The manufacturing method provides for the mass automated or semi-automated production of flexible, breathable heat transfer pads, blankets, and garments which have fluid-carrying plastic tubing in a self-sustaining, stress-relieved pattern captured between two layers of flexible breathable fabric.