SKIN MATERIAL FOR VEHICLE INTERIOR

Provided is a skin material for vehicle interior suppressing the fray of side emission type optical fibers in an end edge part cut into a predetermined shape and size. A skin material for vehicle interior is bonded to a resinous vehicle interior base. The skin material for vehicle interior includes a woven fabric woven by using synthetic resin fibers 1b and 1a, side emission type optical fibers 2, and heat fusible fibers as warps or wefts. The synthetic resin fibers 1b and the side emission type optical fibers 2 adjacent to the synthetic resin fibers are bonded in respective longitudinal directions thereof by the heat fusible fibers (see a bonded part 3a). It is preferable that, even when a plurality of the side emission type optical fibers are woven between the adjacent synthetic resin fibers, the adjacent side emission type optical fibers be bonded to each other in the longitudinal direction by the heat fusible fibers. Furthermore, it is preferable that the heat fusible fibers be obtained by twisting multifilaments and heat fusion yarns having a melting point lower than that of the multifilaments, and the multifilaments remain as constituent yarns after the bonding.