To provide an industrial multilayer fabric having improved rigidity and wear resistance and also having improved strength at a joining portion where yarns are joined in an endless manner by weaving, actualized by employing a structure in which narrower wefts of a small diameter are arranged between lower side wefts so as to sandwich therebetween a knuckle formed by warps on the lower surface side.

The industrial fabric is obtained by stacking at least upper side wefts and the lower side wefts one after another and weaving these wefts with warps, wherein the narrower wefts having a smaller diameter than that of the lower side wefts and forming a shorter crimp than that formed by the lower side wefts on the lower side surface are arranged between the lower side wefts; and at a knuckle portion formed by warps passing under one or two successive lower side wefts, the narrower wefts form a crimp passing under lower side warps so as to sandwich, from both sides, one knuckle or two knuckles formed by two adjacent warps under two adjacent wefts.