The invention relates to shell fabrics, in particular to cloth for making cleaning cloth. According to the cloth for making the cleaning cloth, cleaning filaments and water absorption filaments are arranged, in the cleaning process, the cleaning filaments can play a good cleaning role, and the water absorption filaments can absorb water stains located on a cleaned object, so the cleaning cloth is convenient to use; besides, the diameter of the cleaning filaments is larger than that of the water absorption filaments, the cleaning filaments make contact with the cleaned object, and the water absorption filaments, warp filaments and weft filaments do not make contact with the cleaned object when the cleaning cloth is in use, so the service life of flat machine parts is prolonged; furthermore, through setting of appropriate diameters of the water absorption filaments and the cleaning filaments, the appropriate distance between every two adjacent water absorption filaments and the appropriate included angle between the cleaning filaments and the weft filaments, the cloth for making the cleaning cloth has good cleaning performance and water absorption performance and is convenient to use.