Woven fabric

A woven fabric which has been woven or a needle or rapier loom so as to have plural loops of weft yarn woven between plural warp yarns, the loops of weft yarn having terminal ends located inboard of the outermost warp yarn defining the edge of the fabric opposite to the fabric edge whereat weft insertion has taken place, successive weft yarn loops being secured to one another by a knitted catch thread construction comprising a string of knitted stitches knitted from at least one thread fed externally of the warp yarns and having at least two stitches per one weft loop, the knitted catch thread construction being drawn into the fabric by said weft loops so as to be woven with the warp yarns located between the terminal ends of the weft loops and said outermost warp yarn and being wrapped about said outermost warp yarn.