Abstract: A terry fabric includes a plurality of longitudinally-oriented ground warp yarns, a plurality of pile warp yarns in parallel with the ground warp yarns and a plurality of weft yarns oriented substantially laterally to the ground warp yarns. Each weave sequence of the terry fabric includes first and second placements of weft yarns in a first shed of the ground warp yarns, third and fourth placement of weft yarns in a second shed of the ground warp yarns and a fifth placement of weft yarn in a third shed of the ground warp yarns and the pile warp yarns such that the pile warp yarns form a pile loop over the first, second, third and fourth placements of weft yarns.