A TIRE AND A RUBBER PLY FOR A TIRE

The present invention is directed to a rubber ply for a tire (1), the rubber ply comprising pairs (20) of textile cords (22) arranged in parallel in a plane, wherein each cord of the pairs of textile cords comprises two cord plies. The distance between two adjacent pairs of textile cords (d) is at least 5 times larger than the distance between two parallel textile cords (d) within a pair of textile cords, and wherein the two cord plies in one or more of the textile cords are twisted together in a range from 8 TPI to 12 TPI and have each a density ranging from 500 dtex to 2000 dtex. Further the present invention is also directed to a tire comprising such a rubber ply.