Laminated papermaking belt

A laminated papermaking belt 100 having a machine direction and a cross-machine direction, a machine contacting surface 120 and an opposite web contacting surface 110, the belt comprising a multi-layer structure formed by a first non-woven layer 200 and a second woven layer 300 joined together in a face-to-face relationship, each of the first and second layers having a top surface, an opposite bottom surface, the top surface 202 of the first layer forming a portion of the web contacting surface, and the bottom surface of the second layer forming the machine contacting surface, the woven layer comprises a plurality of woven ridges in a first x-y plane and a plurality of woven valleys lying in a second x-y plane below the first plane such that the nonwoven layer contacts a portion of the plurality of ridges and comprises a plurality of suspended portions elevated in the z-direction from the second x-y plane to form void spaces between the second x-y plane and the suspended portions.