Woven papermaking fabric having discrete cross-machine driection protuberances

The woven papermaking fabric of claim of 1 wherein each of the MD-oriented protuberances are parallel to one another and have substantially similar height and width.

A woven papermaking fabric having a machine direction axis and a cross-machine direction axis, the fabric comprising:

• a plurality of machine direction (MD) oriented warp filaments and a plurality of cross-machine direction (CD) oriented shute filaments, the shute filaments being interwoven with warp filaments to provide a machine contacting fabric side and opposed web contacting fabric side, the web contacting fabric side having first and second spaced apart MD oriented protuberances and first and second CD oriented protuberances spaced apart from each other in the MD and intersecting the first and second MD oriented protuberances, the first and second MD oriented protuberances and the first and second CD oriented protuberances defining a discrete parallelogram shaped valley having a depth of 0.5 mm or greater there between.

A woven papermaking fabric having a machine direction axis and a cross-machine direction axis, the fabric comprising:

• a plurality of machine direction (MD) oriented warp filaments and a plurality of cross-machine direction (CD) oriented shute filaments, the shute filaments being interwoven with warp filaments to provide a machine contacting fabric side and opposed web contacting fabric side, the web contacting fabric side having a pair of spaced apart MD oriented protuberances woven from two or more adjacent warp filaments and a pair of spaced apart CD oriented protuberances comprising at least one shute filament woven over the two or more adjacent warp filaments forming the MD oriented protuberance, the at least one shute filament having an upper surface lying in a first fabric upper surface plane, wherein the pairs of MD and CD orientated protuberances define a valley having a depth of 0.5 mm or greater there between.