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                         SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE


THIS SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this "Second Supplemental Indenture"), 
dated as of July 28, 1998, among the Leshner Corporation, an Ohio corporation,
Opelika Industries, Inc., an Alabama corporation, Leshner of California, Inc.,
a California corporation, (each, a "Guaranteeing Subsidiary"), subsidiaries
of Pillowtex Corporation (or its permitted successor), a Texas corporation
(the "Company"), the other Guarantors (as defined in the Indenture referred
to herein) and Norwest Bank Minnesota, National Association, as trustee under
the indenture referred to below (the "Trustee").

                                   WITNESSETH

WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an 
indenture (the "Indenture"), dated as of December 18, 1997 providing for the
issuance of an aggregate principal amount of up to $185,000,000 of 9% Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2007 (the "Notes"); and

WHEREAS, the Indenture provides that under certain circumstances the
Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental
Indenture pursuant to which the Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall unconditionally
guarantee all of the Company's Obligations under the Notes and the Indenture
on the terms and conditions set forth herein (the "Note Guarantee"); and

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Indenture, the Trustee is authorized
to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture.

NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the Guaranteeing
Subsidiary and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes as follows:

1.   CAPITALIZED TERMS.  Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall 
have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.

2.   AGREEMENT TO GUARANTEE.  The Guaranteeing Subsidiary hereby agrees 
as follows:

   (a)    Along with all Guarantors named in the Indenture to jointly and
severally Guarantee to each Holder of a Note authenticated and delivered by
the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, irrespective
of the validity and enforceability of the Indenture, the Notes or the
obligations of the Company hereunder or thereunder, that:

       (i)     the principal of and interest on the Notes will be promptly paid
in full when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption or 
otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal of and interest on the 
Notes, if any, if lawful, and all other obligations of the Company to 
the Holders or the Trustee hereunder or thereunder will be promptly 
paid in full or performed, all in accordance with the terms hereof and 
thereof; and

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       (ii)    in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any
Notes or any of such other obligations, that same will be promptly paid in 
full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the 
extension or renewal, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or 
otherwise.  Failing payment when due of any amount so guaranteed 
or any performance so guaranteed for whatever reason, the Guarantor 
shall be jointly and severally obligated to pay the same immediately.

   (b)    The obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of the
validity, regularity or enforceability of the Notes or the Indenture, the
absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any
Holder of the Notes with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the
recovery of any judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the same
or any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable
discharge or defense of a guarantor.

   (c)    The following is hereby waived:  diligence, presentment, demand of
payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or
bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the
Company, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever.

   (d)    This Note Guarantee shall not be discharged except by complete
performance of the obligations contained in the Notes and the Indenture.

   (e)    If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to
return to the Company, the Guarantors, or any custodian, Trustee, liquidator or
other similar official acting in relation to either the Company or the
Guarantor, any amount paid by either to the Trustee or such Holder, this Note
Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full
force and effect.

   (f)    The Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall not be entitled to any right of
subrogation in relation to the Holders in respect of any obligations guaranteed
hereby until payment in full of all obligations guaranteed hereby.

   (g)    As between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Holders and the
Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the obligations guaranteed
hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article 6 of the Indenture for the
purposes of this Note Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other
prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations
guaranteed hereby, and (y) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of
such obligations as provided in Article 6 of the Indenture, such obligations
(whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the
Guarantors for the purpose of this Note Guarantee.

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   (h)    The Guarantors shall have the right to seek contribution from any
non-paying Guarantor so long as the exercise of such right does not impair
the rights of the Holders under the Guarantee.

   (i)    Pursuant to Section 10.02 of the Indenture, after giving effect to any
maximum amount and any other contingent and fixed liabilities that 
are relevant under any applicable Bankruptcy or fraudulent 
conveyance laws, and after giving effect to any collections from, 
rights to receive contribution from or payments made by or on behalf 
of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other 
Guarantor under Article 10 of the Indenture shall result in the 
obligations of such Guarantor under its Note Guarantee not 
constituting a fraudulent transfer of conveyance.

3.   EXECUTION AND DELIVERY.  Each Guaranteeing Subsidiary agrees that the 
Note Guarantees shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any
failure to endorse on each Note a notation of such Note Guarantee.

4.   GUARANTEEING SUBSIDIARY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC. ON CERTAIN TERMS.

   (a)    The Guaranteeing Subsidiary may not consolidate with or merge with or
into (whether or not such Guarantor is the surviving Person) another
corporation, Person or entity whether or not affiliated with such Guarantor
unless:

       (i)     subject to Section 11.05 of the Indenture, the Person found
by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than a Guarantor
or the Company) unconditionally assumes all the obligations of such 
Guarantor, pursuant to a supplemental indenture in form and 
substance reasonably satisfactory other the Trustee, under the Notes, 
the Indenture and the Note Guarantee on the terms set forth herein or 
therein; and 

       (ii)    immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default
or Event of Default exists.

   (b)    In case of any consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance and upon the 
assumption by the successor corporation, by supplemental indenture, 
executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the trustee, 
of the Note Guarantee endorsed upon the Notes and the due and punctual 
performance of all of the covenants and conditions of the Indenture to be 
performed by the Guarantor, such successor corporation shall succeed to and 
be substituted for the Guarantor with the same effect as if it had been named 
herein as a Guarantor.  Such successor corporation thereon may cause to be 
signed any or all of the Note Guarantees to be endorsed upon all of the Notes 
issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the 
Company and delivered to the Trustee.  All the Note Guarantees so issued 
shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under the Indenture 
as the Note Guarantees theretofore and thereafter issued in accordance with 
the terms of the Indenture as though all of such Note Guarantees had been 
issued at the date of the execution hereof.

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   (c)    Except as set forth in Articles 4 and 5 of the Indenture, and
notwithstanding clauses (a) and (b) above, nothing contained in the Indenture
or in any of the Notes shall prevent any consolidation or merger of a Guarantor
with or into the Company or another Guarantor, or shall prevent any sale or
conveyance of the property of a Guarantor as an entirety or substantially as
an entirety to the Company or another Guarantor.

5.   RELEASES.

   (a)    In the event of a sale or other disposition of all of the assets of
any Guarantor, by way of merger, consolidation or otherwise, or a sale or other
disposition of all to the capital stock of any Guarantor, then such Guarantor
(in the event of a sale or other disposition, by way of merger, consolidation
or otherwise, of all of the capital stock of such Guarantor) or the corporation
acquiring the property (in the event of a sale or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of such Guarantor) will be released and
relieved of any obligations under its Note Guarantee; provided that the Net
Proceeds of such sale or other disposition are applied in accordance with the
applicable provisions of the Indenture, including without limitation Section
4.10 of the Indenture.  Upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an
Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such sale
or other disposition was made by the Company in accordance with the
provisions of the Indenture, including without limitation Section 4.10 of the
Indenture, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in
order to evidence the release of any Guarantor from its obligations under its
Note Guarantee.

   (b)    Any Guarantor not released from its obligations under its Note
Guarantee 
shall remain liable for the full amount of principal of and interest on the 
Notes and for the other obligations of any Guarantor under the Indenture as 
provided in Article 10 of the Indenture.

6.   NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS.  No past, present or future director, 
officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder or agent of the Guaranteeing
Subsidiary, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the
Company or any Guaranteeing Subsidiary under the Notes, any Note Guarantees,
the Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture or for any claim based on, 
in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.  Each
Holder of the Notes by accepting a Note waives and releases all such
liability.  The waiver and release are part of the consideration for
issuance of the Notes.  Such waiver may not be effective to waive liabilities
under the federal securities laws and it is the view of the Commission that
such a waiver is against public policy.

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7.   NEW YORK LAW TO GOVERN.  THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF 
NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS SUPPLEMENTAL 
INDENTURE BUT WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF 
CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF 
ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.

8.   COUNTERPARTS.  The parties may sign any number of copies of this 
Supplemental Indenture.  Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of
them together represent the same agreement.

9.   EFFECT OF HEADINGS.  The Section headings herein are for convenience 
only and shall not affect the construction hereof.

10.  THE TRUSTEE.  The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner 
whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this
Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained
herein, all of which recitals are made solely by the Guaranteeing 
Subsidiary and the Company.






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   IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental 
Indenture to be executed and attested, all as of the date first above written.


DATE July 28, 1998



                                          PILLOWTEX CORPORATION

                                          By:  Nelson A. Bangs
                                          Title:  Vice President and
                                                  General Counsel


                                          THE LESHNER CORPORATION

                                          By:  Nelson A. Bangs
                                          Title:  Vice President 


                                          OPELIKA INDUSTRIES, INC.

                                          By: Nelson A. Bangs  
                                          Title:  Vice President


                                          LESHNER OF CALIFORNIA, INC.

                                          By:  Nelson A. Bangs
                                          Title:  Vice President

                                          NORWEST BANK MINNESOTA, NATIONAL 
                                            ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE

                                          By: Jane Y. Schweiger
                                          Title:  Corporate Trust Officer


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                                Schedule I

                              SCHEDULE OF GUARANTORS
The following schedule lists each Guarantor under the Indenture as of the
Issue Date:

PTEX Holding Company
Pillowtex, Inc.
Manetta Home Fashions, Inc.
Beacon Manufacturing Company
Pillowtex Management Services Company
Tennessee Woolen Mills, Inc.


The following schedule lists each Guaranteeing Subsidiary under the
Supplemental Indenture dated as of December 19, 1997:

Fieldcrest Cannon, Inc., 
Encee, Inc. 
Fieldcrest Cannon Financing, Inc.
Fieldcrest Cannon Licensing, Inc. 
Fieldcrest Cannon International, Inc.
Fieldcrest Cannon Sure Fit, Inc.
Fieldcrest Cannon Transportation, Inc.
St. Marys, Inc.
Amoskeag Company
Amoskeage Management Corporation
Moore's Falls Corporation
Dwneast Securities Corporation
Crestfield Cotton Company
Bangor Investment Company 
FCC Canada, Inc.