Unbalanced woven adhesive tape

A process for forming a calendered tape comprising:

• weaving an unbalanced woven fabric having an warp dominant face and a filling dominant face, wherein the woven fabric comprises a plurality of warp yarns in a warp direction and a plurality of filling yarns in a filling direction perpendicular to the warp direction crossing with the warp yarns at a plurality of intersections, wherein at least 60% by number of the intersections have the warp yarn crossing with the filling yarn such that the warp yarn is on the warp dominant face of the fabric and at least 60% by number of the intersections have the warp yarn crossing with the filling yarn such that the filling yarn is on the filling dominant face of the fabric, wherein the warp yarns have a linear mass density of between about 30 and 100 denier and the filling yarns have a linear mass density of between about 70 and 600 denier;
• calendering the unbalanced woven fabric;
• and,
• applying an adhesive to the warp dominant face of the unbalanced woven fabric.