A woven fabric belt for a machine for the production of web material, especially paper or cardboard, includes a web material side first fabric layer and a machine side second fabric layer, with threads extending in machine direction and respectively with threads extending in cross machine direction, whereby the first woven fabric layer and the second woven fabric layer are connected with each other by paired binder threads, whereby the binder thread pairs tie off with threads of the second fabric layer extending in one direction of machine direction and cross machine direction in such a way that in the second fabric layer—in the other direction of longitudinal direction of the belt and cross direction of the belt—consecutive groups of threads which are gathered by the binder threads and extend in the one direction are formed and/or whereby inside one field of repeat extending in the second fabric layer in machine direction and cross machine direction the threads of the second fabric layer which extend in the other direction of machine direction and cross machine direction tie off at the threads of the second fabric layer extending in the one direction in order to form respective tie-off points on a side facing away from the machine contact side in such a way that at least one group of tie-off points is formed within the field of repeat which press the threads of one group of threads of the second fabric layer extending in the one direction against each other in the other direction.