fabric is on the machine with loops 26 28 substantially adjacent to each other as shown in fig2 these loops can then be pinned for example using a pintle 30 schematically illustrated in fig2 to join the ends together and finish installation of fabric 10 onto a paper making machine it should be appreciated that manufacturing fabric 10 in this manner provides seam loops 26 28 from machine direction material which is not woven with cross direction material this is desirable since the machine direction yarns are typically under tension and when they are woven with cross direction yarns cross direction knuckles can be formed which are not desirable as they adversely impact the paper product made on the machine the absence of cross direction yarns in outer sleeve 14 is compensated by the cross direction yarns or components of inner sleeve 12 thus one desirable aspect of inner sleeve 12 is a good cross machine direction strength one way to arrive at this structural strength is to start with a length of open material such as a scrim or the like which has a length that is about twice the length of the desired eventually fabric this material 32 is shown in fig3 as having a length 2l that is a length twice the desired length l of fabric 10 material 32 can be a woven or non woven structure and preferably has a greater number of cross direction threads or components than machine direction threads or components this is schematically illustrated in both fig1 and 3 as the spacing between the schematically illustrated yarns or components of inner sleeve 12 in those drawings in order to make material 32 into inner sleeve 12 material 32 is preferably wound.