A sheathed yarn having a natural appearance comprises a core yarn and a sheath which is made from a thermoplastic material. The thermoplastic material of the sheath comprises less than 20 wt.-% of staple fibers, especially of natural origin. The sheathed yarn exhibits excellent mechanical properties and usage properties such as fire resistance, weatherability, resistance to sunshine, and an external appearance generating physically pleasant visual, tactile and olfactory sensations.

Textile (1) possessing antilaceration properties, which is made from synthetic cables (2) sheathed with a polymer material, such as polyvinyl chloride, and includes, in the warp direction and the weft direction, metal cables (3, 4) sheathed with a polymer material having a different color from that of the polymer material for sheathing the synthetic yarns, wherein the warp and weft metal cables (3, 4) are uniformly spaced by a distance of (d, l) of less than 80 millimeters.

A method for producing a coated woven fabric, in which the support material comprises disintegrable chemical weft threads which are subsequently removed without the other threads being affected, method wherein: a first support fabric is produced of which only part of the weft threads are disintegrable, and in a weave in which said disintegrable weft thread is so arranged that, were it to be removed, the result would be, not a woven fabric any longer, but a superposition of three criss-crossed la...