Belt having semicontinuous patterns and nodes

A macroscopically monoplanar secondary belt for manufacturing a cellulosic fibrous structure, and having two mutually orthogonal principal directions, a machine direction and a cross machine direction, the belt comprising:

• a reinforcing structure;
• a framework of protuberances joined to said reinforcing structure and extending outwardly therefrom to define deflection conduits between the protuberances, the framework of protuberances comprising a semicontinuous pattern and the deflection conduits comprising a semicontinuous pattern, the protuberances and the deflection conduits having a substantially linear vector component extending substantially throughout one principal direction of the belt, each protuberance of the pattern being spaced apart from an adjacent protuberance in the pattern;
• the protuberances comprising primary protuberances having a first width, T, and nodes having a second width, N, wherein a ratio of N to T is from about 1.5 to about 5;
• and
• a first protuberance and a second protuberance that is adjacent to the first protuberance, wherein the primary protuberances of the first protuberance are equidistance and parallel to primary protuberances of the second protuberance and wherein the nodes of the first protuberance are not equidistance and not parallel to nodes of the second protuberance.