Abstract: It is aimed to provide a pile fabric that is favorable in anticurling and pile-raising performance and in curbing of coming off of the piles. To this end, yarns forming the ground part are core-in-sheath yarns having sheaths of low-melting resin; knitting or weaving pattern is such that the piles are raised or erected when the fabric is strained to stretch in either of warp and weft directions; and the piles are fixed in an erect state, on the ground part, as a result of heat setting at a time the fabric is strained in the warp or weft direction. The fabric has been subjected to the heat setting at a temperature not lower than a melting temperature of the low melting resin; and a change in average pile-raising extent of the fabric is not less than 2%, before and after the heat setting.

Abstract: A waterproof layer is formed as necessary on one or both surfaces of a textile fabric and as an outermost layer there is formed a water-swelling layer comprising a water-insoluble water-swelling resin applied in a pattern form.