PURPOSE: To obtain a seamless tubular woven fabric having uniform texture over the whole circumference using a hollow-weaving process by disposing a high-strength wire at both selvage of warped warps and removing the wire after weaving.

CONSTITUTION: Warps 2 are passed through a heald and a reed. A high-strength wire 11 (e.g. wire made of stainless steel fiber, etc.) is placed at both selvages of the warp 2, the warps 2 are opened by a heald, a weft is inserted by a shuttle and beaten toward the fell of cloth with a reed to effect the weaving. The high-strength wire is removed from the woven fabric to obtain the objective seamless tubular woven fabric free from density difference between the selvage part and the other part and suitable as an ink ribbon, etc.