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A tabric for the forming, press and dryet sections of a paper machine, for use as a reinforcing base for a polymeric-lesin-coaled paper-processing belt or as a corrugator belt, or in other industrial settings where a material is being dewatered. is formed from a monofilament yum (id), which is spirally wound in the form of a closed helix (26), adjacent turns thereof being abutted against arid joined securely to one another The monotilament yam has a first side and a second side which are oppositely and correspondingly shaped, so that, when spirally wound in a plurality of turns, the first side fits closely into or against the second side of an adjacent and -ab'uitting and adjacent spiral turns ate secured to one another at the .abutting first and second sides to form the fabric.