Patent ID: 8650668

Claim:
A protective garment comprising: an outer shell; and an inner liner coupled to the outer shell and positioned such that the inner liner is positioned between a wearer and the outer shell when the garment is worn, the inner liner including a base material and a high lubricity material which has a lubricity that is higher than the base material, wherein the high lubricity material is woven into the base material to form a plurality of strips of high lubricity material and a plurality of discrete contact areas formed at the intersection of at least two strips, wherein within each discrete contact area a portion of each strip comprises a plurality of generally parallel, adjacent fibers of the high lubricity material, wherein each discrete contact area comprises at least two separate warp fibers or yarns of high lubricity material each being individually woven with at least two separate weft fibers or yarns of high lubricity material.