Surface properties sometimes play a more important role in the function of polymer materials than do the bulk of polymer materials. Many functions of the polymer materials, e.g. adhesion, printability, dye ability, gloss, biocompatibility, and tribology, are not related to the bulk of the polymer materials, but rather to the topmost layer of the materials. So far, a wide variety of surface treatments techniques have been investigated for surface modification of polymer materials without any change in bulk properties. Superhydrophobic surface have been created by tailoring the surface topography and using techniques such as anodic oxidation, electrodeposition and chemical etching, plasma etching, laser treatment, electrospinning, chemical vapor deposition and sol–gel processing in combination with substances such as silanes and fluorochemicals. In this study, several different and novel methods for fabrication of superhydrophobic polyester fabric were investigated. For the fabrication of the “lotus leaf-type” fibers with self-cleaning properties, two major requirements should be considered: (1) the fibers need to have low surface energy and (2) the magnitude of the degree of roughness to be created. The used fluorocarbon imparted the minimum surface energy to polyester fibers. Polyester weight reduction process, alkaline hydrolysis, by creating pits which mainly resulted from the presence of TiO 2 particles, efficiently roughened the surface in order that after the fluorocarbon coating, remarkable improvement in fabric repellent properties was observed. In addition, it was revealed that the achieved superhydrophobicity are affected also by other structural changes during alkaline hydrolysis. Furthermore, polyester fabric aminolysis generated surface cracks with subsequent surface roughness changed in that repellent properties was promoted. The results indicate that surface structural changed by both alkaline hydrolysis and aminolysis, was fair enough for engineering superhydrophobic polyester fabric, So that there was no necessity to use nanoparticles. Comparison the smooth polyester film, Melinex, and the fabrics showed the importance of weave and knit structure on surface topography and creating dual scale roughness (irregularity) in fabric structure, and pits or cracks from hydrolysis with subsequent deep influence on superhydrophobicity. Evaluation of fluorocarbon chain re-orientation illustrated that the decay of hydrophobicity was not at that level to adversely affect the self-cleaning properties with water. Moreover, it was attempted to assess self-cleaning properties objectively in addition to subjective measurement.