To obtain a pile fabric and a Mayer blanket having excellent bulkiness and cotton-like feeling, and having excellent surface tone of color.

The pile fabric has a pile weave and a ground weave. The pile weave is constructed with a spun yarn consisting of 95-50 pts.wt. of cotton and 5-50 pts.wt. of an acrylic fiber having a linear shrinkage percentage of ≤15% in boiling water.