Woven stringer for slide fasteners

A woven fastener stringer comprising a woven tape formed with foundation warp and weft threads and consisting of a web section defining a major dimension of said tape and a woven filament section defining a longitudinal edge portion of said tape;

• a row of successively interconnected elongated loops woven into said filament section and interengageable with another row on a mating stringer by the action of a slider, each of said loops having a coupling head at one end thereof, an upper leg and a lower leg extending from said head in a common direction, and a heel portion remote from said head connected to a next adjacent one of said successive loops;
• a plurality of covering warp threads overlying and underlying said loops;
• a stuffing cord extending longitudinally of the tape through said row of loops;
• at least one guide cord having a knit structure wound around a core and extending longitudinally of the tape in abutting conforming engagement with the outer peripheral surfaces of said heel portions;
• and a binding weft thread continuing from said foundation and interwoven with said covering warp threads in said woven filament section, said binding weft thread being tensioned to bite into the material of said stuffing cord and deform said guide cord to produce a rigid guide surface for the slider, said stuffing cord being thermally expandable to augment the effective bite of said binding weft thread into the material of the stuffing cord.