Industrial textile

The invention relates to an industrial textile for use in a fibrous web forming and/or processing machine, having a web contacting side and a machine contacting side and having at its two longitudinal ends a transversal edge section which can be joined together to make the textile endless, the textile comprises a fabric made from MD-yarns interwoven with CD-yarns, the MD-yarns are arranged in groups of at least two adjacent MD-yarns (MD-yarn group), the MD-yarns of each MD-yarn group weaving side-by-side the same weave path with the CD-yarns, each of the MD-yarn groups comprises a first MD-yarn and a second MD- yarn being arranged such that the first and second MD-yarn are adjacent to each other, the first MD-yarn of a MD-yarn group is non-adjacent to the first MD-yarn of an adjacent MD-yarn group and the second MD-yarn of said MD-yarn group is non-adjacent to the second MD- yarn of said adjacent MD-yarn group. The invention is characterized in that at each transversal edge section the first MD-yarn of a firs