Method for manufacturing woven fabric and woven fabric

Abstract

To provide a method for manufacturing a woven fabric for which neither the appearance nor a function provided by flat threads of the woven fabric are impaired, and to provide the woven fabric. The woven fabric further includes flat threadseach wider than a fiber warp thread, and the flat threadsare caused to pass through healdsintermittently with respect to a plurality of the fiber warp threads. A holeof each heald is long in a heald moving direction. By causing the flat threadto pass through the hole, the longitudinal direction in transverse plane of the flat threadis oriented along a heald moving direction M. By interweaving fiber weft threads with the fiber warp threads, a plurality of woven fabric placement sections is formed so as to be arranged in a weft direction W, each woven fabric placement section being formed as a woven fabric structure and having the flat thread corresponding thereto placed on the woven fabric structure. A flat face HF of the flat threadis disposed on the fiber warp threadsin the woven fabric placement section so as to face the fiber warp threads. A part of the fiber weft threads is caused to pass over the flat thread, to fix the flat threadon the woven fabric placement section. The woven fabric covering section may be formed as a plain weave.