Patent ID: 6884490

Claim:
A design tape provided with a couple of round bar-shaped protrusions each having a circular cross-section and extending parallel with each other along a central line of a surface of plain weave cloth, each of the round bar-shaped protrusions being constructed by making use of hollow weave fabric and having a substantially circular cross-section, wherein said design tape is constituted by a couple of tape components arrayed side by side, that each of the tape components is provided at an edge portion of one of the selvages thereof with one of said round bar-shaped protrusions which is constructed by making use of hollow weave fabric, that said selvages of said couple of tape components are juxtaposed and connected with each other by making use of stitching thread which is applied to a boundary line between said protrusions and said selvages of tape components, and that the connected portion of said couple of tape components is unfolded back to a flattened state of the design tape where surfaces of said couple of tape components are made flush with each other.