To provide a stretchable bulky staple fiber woven or knitted fabric without requiring special singeing, alkali weight reduction processing, etc., for obtaining pill resistance, slightly causing production trouble during fiber spinning, spinning or dyeing and having soft bulkiness and pill resistance in combination tough the woven or knitted fabric is composed of an air interlaced spun yarn only by a simple treatment such as a hot water treatment and to provide a method for producing the fabric.
The stretchable bulky staple fiber woven or knitted fabric comprises the air interlaced spun yarn composed of side-by-side crimped staple fibers alone or the crimped staple fibers and low-shrinkable staple fibers and containing at least 10 mass% of the side-by-side crimped staple fibers having 1.0-6.0 dtex fineness. The pill resistance is ≥3 class.
NISHINAKA HISAO
TANIDA MITSUO
