Patent ID: 7406986

Claim:
A woven tape for use as a trimming of a brassiere, said woven tape being a single-layer woven tape, including a body portion provided with a plurality of openings along its warp wise centerline, wherein said openings are formed integrally with said woven tape by weaving and wherein said woven tape has a weaving structure represented by a 2-dimensional 8×6 matrix and wherein each of matrix elements ( 1 , 1 ), ( 1 , 4 ), ( 1 , 5 ), ( 2 , 2 ), ( 2 , 3 ), ( 2 , 6 ), ( 3 , 1 ), ( 3 , 4 ), ( 3 , 5 ), ( 4 , 2 ), ( 4 , 3 ), ( 4 , 6 ), ( 5 , 1 ), ( 5 , 4 ), ( 6 , 2 ), ( 6 , 3 ), ( 7 , 1 ), ( 7 , 4 ), ( 8 , 2 ), and ( 8 , 3 ) of said matrix represents that a warp yarn is between two weft yarns and wherein each of matrix elements ( 1 , 2 ), ( 2 , 1 ), ( 2 , 5 ), ( 3 , 2 ), ( 4 , 1 ), ( 4 , 5 ), ( 5 , 2 ), ( 6 , 1 ), ( 6 , 5 ), ( 6 , 6 ), ( 7 , 2 ), ( 8 , 1 ), ( 8 , 5 ), and ( 8 , 6 ) of said matrix represents that a warp yarn is above two weft yarns and wherein each of matrix elements ( 1 , 3 ), ( 1 , 6 ), ( 2 , 4 ), ( 3 , 3 ), ( 3 , 6 ), ( 4 , 4 ), ( 5 , 3 ), ( 5 , 5 ), ( 5 , 6 ), ( 6 , 4 ), ( 7 , 3 ), ( 7 , 5 ), ( 7 , 6 ), and ( 8 , 4 ) represents that a warp yarn is underneath two weft yarns.