Industrial fabric

An industrial fabric in which an upper surface side fabric and a lower surface side fabric are bound, comprising:

• upper surface side wefts that form a part of the upper surface side fabric;
• lower surface side wefts that form a part of the lower surface side fabric;
• upper surface side warps that are interwoven only with the upper surface side wefts so as to form a part of the upper surface side fabric;
• lower surface side warps that are interwoven only with the lower surface side wefts so as to form a part of the lower surface side fabric;
• and
• binding warps that bind the upper surface side fabric and the lower surface side fabric,
• wherein the binding warps have:
• a first binding warp and a second binding warp that are arranged vertically in a pair;
• and
• a third binding warp that forms knuckles passing above the upper surface side wefts,
• wherein the upper surface side warps include an upper surface side collapsing yarn that forms vertically a pair with the third binding warp,
• wherein the upper surface side collapsing yarn passes below the upper surface side wefts and collapses a part of the upper surface side obverse surface texture at a position where the third binding warp forms the knuckles on the upper surface side wefts, and
• wherein the pair formed by the first binding warp and the second binding warp complement each other while the pair formed by the third binding warp and the upper surface side collapsing yarn complement each other such that the pair formed by the first binding warp and the second binding warp and the pair formed by the third binding warp and the upper surface side collapsing yarn thereby form the same weaving pattern for the upper surface side wefts in a weave repeat.