strips are partially overlapping in a substantially staggered relationship this construction may be used for containment of radially directed fragments such as those produced by damaged flywheels or turbine blades fig1 is a depiction of ballistic fabric strips 22 woven into the form of fabric 75 this woven fabric 75 can typically be utilized as a blast shield however there are a myriad of potential ballistic protection applications fig2 depicts a 22 caliber projectile bullet 80 that has impacted a fabric comprised of coated ballistic fabric strips 22 such as that shown in fig1 when utilizing staggered strips 22 a projectile 80 must first impact near the vertical edge 25 as shown in fig3 yarns 16 placed in tension by the projectile 80 and intersecting the vertical edge 25 are pulled into the ballistic fabric strip 22 this motion of these yarns 16 produce a shear force across the face of the impacting projectile 80 this force produces a moment on the projectile 80 tending to rotate it about its center of gravity and also to deform the projectile 80 asymmetrically this asymmetrically loading of the bullet 80 is advantageous as it tends to increase the energy absorption by both increasing the area of the bullet 80 and rotating it to present its long axis to the strips of ballistic fabric 22 a 22 caliber projectile 80 is also shown in a cross sectional view with edge curling due to the asymmetrical loading this presents a direct contrast to fig2 that also.