Innovative 2D and 3D fabric-forming methods have been developed in the last 20 years to practically overcome the inherent technical and economic limitations of traditional textile processes that are employed for manufacturing reinforcements, or pre-forms, for composites application. These developments include Tape-Weaving, Oblique Fabric-forming Technique, 3D-Weaving and Uniaxial Noobing. The working principles of these processes and the correspondingly producible 2D and 3D fabric architectures are fundamentally different from the existing ones. They open up new academic and industrial opportunities. This Paper presents these specifically developed processes and their products.