PURPOSE: To provide a method for obtaining an artificial fur closely resembling a seal or chinchilla as a fur of the highest quality and having been considered to be virtually impossible to obtain.

CONSTITUTION: In this raised fabric having raising consisting of polyester fibers, it is characteristic that the number of the fibers with a length of 0.8-1 based on unit length of the longest raised fiber account for ≥60% of the number of the total raised fibers and at least 50% of the number of the total raised fibers were subjected to caustic reduction over the range from the tips to the points corresponding to ≤15% of the raised lengths.