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                                                                    EXHIBIT 3.25

                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                       FIELDCREST CANNON LICENSING, INC.

     The undersigned, being of the age of eighteen years or more, does hereby
make and acknowledge this Certificate of Incorporation for the purpose of
forming a business corporation under and by virtue of the State of Delaware.

                                       I.

     The name of the corporation is Fieldcrest Cannon Licensing, Inc.

                                      II.

     The address of the initial registered office of the corporation in the
State of Delaware is 32 Loockerman Square, Suite L-100, City of Dover, Delaware
19904, County of Kent, and the name of the initial registered agent at such
address is The Prentice-Hall Corporation System, Inc.

                                      III.

     The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity
for which a corporation may be organized under the General Corporation Law of
Delaware.

                                      IV.

     The total number of shares of stock which the corporation shall have
authority to issue is One Thousand (1,000) shares of Common Stock, no par value
per share.

                                       V.

     The name and address of the sole incorporator are Joyce Kotzker, 200 West
Second Street, 1600 Southern National Financial Center, Winston-Salem, NC 27101.

                                      VI.

     No person who is serving or has served as director of the corporation
shall be liable to the corporation or to any stockholder for monetary damages
for breach of any fiduciary 
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this article becomes effective. Nothing herein shall be deemed to limit or 
eliminate the liability of any person (i) for any breach of such person's duty
of loyalty as a director to the corporation or its stockholders; (ii) for acts
or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a
knowing violation of the law; (iii) for the unlawful payment of a dividend by
the corporation or the unlawful purchase or redemption of the corporation's
capital stock by the corporation; (iv) for any transaction from which such
person derived an improper personal benefit; or (v) to any extent that such
liability may not be limited or eliminated by virtue of the provisions of
Section 102(b)(7) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware or
any successor statute.

     The undersigned incorporator hereby acknowledges that the foregoing
certificate of incorporation is her act and deed and that the facts stated
therein are true.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned sole incorporator of the corporation
has hereunto set her hand this 8th day of December, 1994.
                                                 
                                                        /s/ JOYCE KOTZKER      
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                                                    Joyce Kotzker, Incorporator