To provide a pile fabric so designed that pile fiber-melted film 14 constituting recesses forming an uneven pattern of the pile surface of the fabric is made to be free from crack, peeling and coming-off.

The pile fabric is such as to be designed in the following way: Piles 13 are constituted of high-melting fibers 11 and low-melting fibers 12 differing in melting point from each other, and being 5 dtex or less in single fiber fineness (M) and the thickness (H) of the pile layer is 2.0 mm or less. The pile density (N) represented as the number of piles per unit area of 25.4 mm2is 1,000/(25.4 mm)2or higher, and the pile fiber density (R) per unit area of 25.4 mm2, represented as the product (Q×N) of the number of fibers constituting the piles and the pile density (N), is 300,000/(25.4 mm)2. The ratio of the blend mass of the low-melting fibers 12 to the total mass of the piles is 10-70%, and the blend number ratio of the low-melting fibers 12 to the total pile fibers constituting the piles 13 is 7-50%.

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