Footwear uppers including bladders, articles of footwear including bladders in the upper, and methods of forming such uppers and/or articles of footwear

A footwear upper component, comprising:

• a first fabric element that includes a first surface having texturing, wherein the first surface has a mesh structure with openings defined within a matrix formed by the first fabric element;
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• a bladder component that defines a sealed interior chamber for containing a fluid, wherein the bladder component includes:
• (a) a first major surface engaged with the first surface of the first fabric element, wherein the first major surface defines at least part of a first perimeter seam surface and at least part of a first surface of the sealed interior chamber, (b) a second major surface opposite the first major surface, wherein the second major surface defines at least part of a second perimeter seam surface opposite the first perimeter seam surface and at least part of a second surface of the sealed interior chamber opposite the first surface of the sealed interior chamber, and (c) and a fluid chamber located between the first major surface and the second major surface, wherein at least a portion of the first major surface includes texturing having surface contour features corresponding to the texturing present on the first surface of the first fabric element, and wherein the mesh structure and openings of the first surface of the first fabric element produce the surface contour features on the first major surface of the bladder component.