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A textile substrate for seat covers, a woven fabric or a knitted fabric, especially Raschel or Malimo, contains at least 40% by weight of wool and at least 15% by weight of ramie, but always more than 85% by weight of both taken together. The substrate can consist exclusively of wool and ramie but can also contain further constituents, preferably of animal or vegetable origin such as cotton, linen, hemp or else natural rubber. To obtain antistatic properties, it can contain incorporated metal threads. Minor proportions of synthetic fibres, for example polyester, are also possible. The substrate can be formed for example as a woven fabric with a blend yarn (1) of 80% by weight of wool and 20% by weight of ramie in the warp and ramie threads (2) in the weft. Textile substrates of the kind described offer on account of their excellent water absorption and transport properties high comfort as seat covers especially even over seats which are frequently used for a long period without interruption such as wheelchairs, seats in cars and buses, in trains and in aircraft and also office chairs. On account of their composition, the fabrics are also disposable in a very environmentally benign manner, since comminuted and kept at sufficiently high moisture and temperature they rot down substantially or--in particular when consisting exclusively of natural fibre--completely and are thus compostable.

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