machine direction ends of the woven base are joined together by a seam of a kind known in the art and that a flap of the needled on batt s is arranged to cover the seam zone after the woven base ends have been joined together the invention involves weaving cd yarns in the flap area of the seam where ordinary warp yarns cannot be woven one of the advantages inherent in the subject invention is that the seam owing to the complete layer above the seam imparts more uniform characteristics to the fabric across the seam area the preferred embodiments of the present invention will now be described by reference to the figures fig2 is a top plan view of a multi layer fabric base for a press fabric in accordance with the teachings of the present invention as shown the top layer is a plain weave pattern although the invention is not limited as such the lighter shaded cd yarns 200 are located directly above the seaming loops of the lower layers of the base note that these cd yarns 200 which are omitted during the weaving of typical fabrics complete the top layer pattern in the seam area also note this fabric base is preferably woven such that the cd yarns are warp yarns and the md yarns are weft yarns hence cd yarns 200 represent extra warp yarns which together with the md yarn weave a single layer weave over the seam area where the ordinary warp ends cannot be woven 0044 fig3 is a schematic cross sectional view of a multi layer fabric which may be the same as that.