Decorative sheeting fabric

A decorative woven percale sheeting fabric characterized by having substantially transparent sheer areas of an appearance contrasting with adjacent, substantially opaque heavier areas to define a patterned effect in the fabric, said fabric comprising warp and weft yarns of corespun construction interwoven with one another to form a substantially uniform woven fabric construction of at least about 180 threads per square inch throughout both said sheer areas and said heavier areas, each of the corespun warp and weft yarns having a core portion formed of a noncarbonizable multifilament synthetic polymer of about 40 to 50 total denier and having a sheath portion formed of carbonizable staple fibers helically wrapped about the multifilament core portion to substantially surround and encase the same and comprising at least 50 percent by weight of the corespun yarn, the portions of said warp and weft yarns which extend throughout said heavier areas being tightly interwoven and having the sheath fibers of adjacent yarns positioned in contiguous relation to render said heavier areas of the fabric substantially opaque, and the portions of said warp and weft yarns which extend throughout said sheer areas having the multifilament core portions thereof exposed and being substantially devoid of sheath fibers and thus being smaller than the adjacent portions of the yarns in said heavier areas, and with adjacent yarns in said sheer areas thus being spaced apart from one another to render said areas sheer and substantially transparent in contrast with the opacity of the adjacent heavier areas.

A decorative woven percale sheeting fabric characterized by having substantially transparent sheer areas of an appearance contrasting with adjacent, substantially opaque heavier areas to define a patterned effect in the fabric, said fabric comprising warp and weft yarns of corespun construction having a yarn count of about 34/1 to about 40/1 cotton count and being interwoven with one another to form a uniform woven fabric construction of at least about 180 threads per square inch throughout both said sheer areas and said heavier areas, and wherein the picks per inch are approximately 10 to 20 percent less than the warp ends per inch, each of the corespun warp and weft yarns having a core portion formed of multifilament polyester of 2 to 4 denier per filament and a total denier of about 40 to 50, and having a sheath portion formed of cellulosic fibers of a staple length of at least 1 1/16 inch, the cellulosic fibers being helically wrapped about the multifilament polyester core portion to substantially surround and encase the same, said cellulosic fibers comprising at least 65 percent by weight of the corespun yarn, the portions of said warp and weft yarns which extend throughout said heavier areas having the cellulosic sheath fibers of adjacent yarns positioned in contiguous relation to render said heavier areas substantially opaque, and the portions of said warp and weft yarns which extend throughout said sheer areas having the multifilament polyester core portion thereof exposed and being substantially devoid of sheath fibers and thus being smaller than the adjacent portions of the yarns in said heavier areas, and with adjacent yarns in said sheer areas thus being spaced apart from one another to render said areas sheer and substantially transparent in contrast with the opacity of the adjacent heavier areas.