Patent ID: 6974785

Claim:
A textile material to constitute an outer shell fabric for fire-resistive garments, said textile material being double weave having an upper surface and a bottom surface, said upper surface being defined by a first weave and said bottom surface being defined by a second weave, said first weave comprising an arrangement of a warp of yarns of a first fiber type material and a weft of yarns of said first fiber type material, wherein said yarns of said first fiber type material are arranged to be predominantly exposed on said upper surface, said second weave comprising an arrangement of a warp of yarns of a second fiber type material and a weft of yarns of said second fiber type material, wherein said yarns of said second fiber type material are predominantly exposed on said bottom surface, said first and second weaves being interlaced by means of intermittently arranged yarns of said first fiber type material, said intermittently arranged yarns sharing both said upper surface and said bottom surface, in a way that said yarns of said first fiber type material are exposed on a major part of said upper surface, and said yarns of said second fiber type material are exposed on a major part of said bottom surface.