A fusion bonded, pile fabric is made by positioning a pile-forming yarn in pile forming fashion adjacent to one side of a liquid permeable base layer, applying a hot melt adhesive heated to at least its softening point to the base layer on the opposite side of the base layer from the side adjacent to the pile-forming yarn, forcing the hot melt adhesive through the base layer into bond-forming contact with the pile-forming yarn, and allowing the adhesive to cool to a temperature below its softening temperature to thereby bond the pile-forming yarn to the base layer. Apparatus for use in this process is also provided and various configurations of pile fabric are described.
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