An air-bag for a motor vehicle, the air-bag being formed from two superposed layers of fabric, each of the layers being woven from a plurality of yarns, the layers of fabric being connected to each other at least partially through interweaving of the yarns of the two layers with each other, wherein the air-bag comprises: at least one inflatable region, in which the two layers of fabric are substantially not connected to each other, so that gas can be introduced into the space between the two layers to inflate the inflatable region; and at least one non-inflatable region, the non-inflatable region comprising an area over which, for one of the layers of fabric, there is a first number of crossing points of yarns that form the layer of fabric, and there is a second number of connections between the two layers, wherein at each connection a yarn of the layer of fabric extends across to the other layer and passes over the far side of the a yarn of the other layer, and wherein the second number is no more than 0.0033 times the first number.