Abstract: An embroidery fabric includes a main body consisting of interwoven weft and warp fibers that delimit between themselves respective rows and columns of openings for the passage of embroidery threads through them. At least one of the elongated marginal portions of the main body is substantially straight and is reinforced by one or more elongated reinforcing elements of a plastically deformable material secured to it and extending fully within the confines of, and at least substantially over the entire length of, such one marginal portion. The corresponding other marginal portion may also be reinforced in the same manner, while the intermediate portion situated between the marginal portions and having a width many times in excess of that of the marginal portions is devoid of any such reinforcement. The fabric is advantageously of an elongated, strip-shaped, configuration, and the affected marginal portions are those extending in the longitudinal direction of the strip-shaped fabric.