Textile fabric with opposed absorbent and non-absorbent layers and method of fabricating same

An integrally fabricated textile fabric characterized by a liquid permeable non-absorbent layer at one face of said fabric adapted for initial liquid contact in use of said fabric and a liquid retaining absorbent layer at the opposite face of said fabric for wicking of liquid from said non-absorbent layer to, and retention of wicked liquid by, said absorbent layer while maintaining said non-absorbent layer essentially dry to touch, said fabric comprising hydrophobic yarn formed in a raised surface construction predominantly at said one face of said fabric to form said non-absorbent layer, hydrophilic yarn formed in a relatively dense extended pile construction predominantly at said opposite face of said fabric to form said absorbent layer, and generally inelastic ground yarn formed in a dimensionally stable generally non-stretchable construction, each of said hydrophobic, hydrophilic and ground yarns being intermeshed with at least one of the other for integrating said absorbent and non-absorbent layers, said raised surface construction of said hydrophobic yarn in said non-absorbent layer sufficiently covering said ground and hydrophilic yarns with sufficiently small interstices in said non-absorbent layer to permit liquid permeation therethrough to said absorbent layer while serving to resist leakage of absorbed liquid from said absorbent layer through said non-absorbent layer.