To provide the lightweight substrate woven fabric of a self-holding type fastener (hook-and-loop fastener), improved in the formation of loops and having a stable holding force.

This woven fabric having knitted loops is provided with a substrate woven fabric, and two legs 12 and 13 knitted with the substrate fabric for each loop. The substrate woven fabric comprises warp wales 8 and 11 for forming the meshes of mutually parallel wales with stitches and wefts 6 for being bound to the warp wales to form the substrate fabric. Therein, the bound portions of the wefts 6 to the wales 8 and 11 are disposed between the first wale and the third wale on the mesh of the second wale and the fourth wale, and two the legs of a loop are knitted with the second and fourth stitches.