
                                                                 EXHIBIT 24.1

                              POWER OF ATTORNEY
                              _________________


     KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each of Unifi, Inc. and the several 
undersigned Officers and Directors thereof whose signatures appear below, hereby
makes constitutes and appoints William T. Kretzer and Willis C. Moore, III, each
of them acting individually, its and his true and lawful attorneys, with power
to act without any other and with full power of substitution, to execute, 
deliver and file in its or his name and on its or his behalf, and in each of 
the undersigned Officers' and Directors' capacity or capacities as shown below,
(a) a Registration Statement on Form S-8 (including a reoffering prospectus 
prepared in accordance with Form S-3 if said Attorneys deem the filing of the 
same to be appropriate) (or other appropriate form) and all other documents 
in support thereof or supplemental thereto and any and all amendments, 
including any and all post-effective amendments to the foregoing (hereinafter
called the "Registration Statement"), with respect to the registration under 
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of such number of shares as may be 
necessary to fully register the Unifi, Inc. 1996 Incentive Stock Option Plan and
the Unifi, Inc. 1996 Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan, and (b) such registration 
statements, petitions, applications, consents to service of process or other 
instruments, any and all documents in support thereof or supplemental 
thereto, and any and all amendments or supplements to the foregoing, as may 
be necessary or advisable to qualify or register the securities covered by 
the Registration Statement under such securities laws, regulations and 
requirements as may be applicable; and each of Unifi, Inc. and said Officers 
and Directors hereby grants to said attorneys, and to each of them, full 
power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing whatsoever
as said attorneys or attorney may deem necessary or advisable to carry out 
fully the intent of this power of attorney to the same extent and with the 
same effect as Unifi, Inc. might or could do, and as each of said Officers 
and Directors might or could do personally in his capacity or capacities as 
aforesaid and each of Unifi, Inc. and said Officers and Directors hereby 
ratifies and confirms all acts and things which said attorneys or attorney 
might do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and its or 
his signature as the same may be signed by said attorneys or attorney, or
any of them, to any or all of the following (and/or any and all amendments and
supplements to any or all thereof):  such Registration Statement under the 
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all such registration statements, 
petitions, applications, consents to service of process and other instruments,
and any and all documents in support thereof or supplemental thereto, under such
securities laws, regulations and requirements as may be applicable.


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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Unifi, Inc. has caused this power of attorney to be
signed on its behalf and each of the undersigned Officers and Directors in 
the capacity or capacities noted has hereunto set his hand as of the date 
indicated below.

     UNIFI, INC.
     (Registrant)



By:	WILLIS C. MOORE, III           
   	Willis C. Moore, III
   	Vice President and 
   	Chief Financial Officer	                                 September 5, 1997



G. ALLEN MEBANE, IV 		          Chairman of the 	            September 5, 1997
G. Allen Mebane, IV		           Board of Directors



WILLIAM T. KRETZER		            President, Chief	            September 5, 1997
William T. Kretzer		            Executive Officer
                                (Principal Executive
                                Officer) and Director


JERRY W. ELLER			               Executive Vice	              September 5, 1997
Jerry W. Eller			               President and
                                Director


G. ALFRED WEBSTER			            Executive Vice	              September 5, 1997
G. Alfred Webster			            President and 
                                Director


ROBERT A. WARD             	    Director	                    September 5, 1997
Robert A. Ward


CHARLES R. CARTER        	      Director	                    September 5, 1997
Charles R. Carter


                       		       Director  	                  September 5, 1997
Kenneth G. Langone



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DONALD F. ORR               	   Director	                    September 5, 1997
Donald F. Orr


J. B. DAVIS                     Director	                    September 5, 1997
J. B. Davis 



                           	    Director	                    September 5, 1997
R. Wiley Bourne, Jr.




