A woven papermaking fabric having a machine direction axis and a cross-machine direction axis, the fabric comprising: a plurality of machine direction oriented warp filaments and a plurality of cross-machine direction oriented shute filaments, the shute filaments being interwoven with warp filaments to provide a machine contacting fabric side and opposed web contacting fabric side, the web contacting fabric side having: first and second woven MD oriented protuberances, wherein the first and second MD oriented protuberances are woven in a twill pattern comprising continuous, parallel, spaced apart MD protuberances having a non-zero element angle, wherein each MD oriented protuberance is woven from two or more directly adjacent warp filaments having a paired portion having a float length from 2 to 8; and first and second woven CD oriented protuberances, wherein the first and second CD oriented protuberances are woven in a twill pattern comprising continuous, parallel, spaced apart CD protuberances having a non-zero element angle, wherein each CD oriented protuberance is woven from two or more directly adjacent shute filaments having a paired portion having a float length from 2 to 8; wherein the CD oriented protuberances intersect the MD oriented protuberances and together bound discrete valleys, wherein the discrete valleys have a depth greater than about 0.30 mm, wherein the depth is determined as described in the section entitled "Test Method" herein; wherein the first and second twill woven MD oriented protuberances have an element angle from 5.0 to 10.0 degrees, wherein the element angle is the orientation of the MD oriented protuberance along its longitudinal axis relative to the MD axis of the fabric; and wherein the first and second twill woven CD oriented protuberances have an element angle from 65 to 75 degrees, wherein the element angle is the orientation of the CD oriented protuberance along its longitudinal axis relative to the MD axis of the fabric; wherein the element angle is determined as described in the section entitled "Test Method" herein. a plurality of machine direction oriented warp filaments and a plurality of cross-machine direction oriented shute filaments, the shute filaments being interwoven with warp filaments to provide a machine contacting fabric side and opposed web contacting fabric side, the web contacting fabric side having: first and second woven MD oriented protuberances, wherein the first and second MD oriented protuberances are woven in a twill pattern comprising continuous, parallel, spaced apart MD protuberances having a non-zero element angle, wherein each MD oriented protuberance is woven from two or more directly adjacent warp filaments having a paired portion having a float length from 2 to 8; and first and second woven CD oriented protuberances, wherein the first and second CD oriented protuberances are woven in a twill pattern comprising continuous, parallel, spaced apart CD protuberances having a non-zero element angle, wherein each CD oriented protuberance is woven from two or more directly adjacent shute filaments having a paired portion having a float length from 2 to 8; wherein the CD oriented protuberances intersect the MD oriented protuberances and together bound discrete valleys, wherein the discrete valleys have a depth greater than about 0.30 mm, wherein the depth is determined as described in the section entitled "Test Method" herein; first and second woven MD oriented protuberances, wherein the first and second MD oriented protuberances are woven in a twill pattern comprising continuous, parallel, spaced apart MD protuberances having a non-zero element angle, wherein each MD oriented protuberance is woven from two or more directly adjacent warp filaments having a paired portion having a float length from 2 to 8; and first and second woven CD oriented protuberances, wherein the first and second CD oriented protuberances are woven in a twill pattern comprising continuous, parallel, spaced apart CD protuberances having a non-zero element angle, wherein each CD oriented protuberance is woven from two or more directly adjacent shute filaments having a paired portion having a float length from 2 to 8; wherein the CD oriented protuberances intersect the MD oriented protuberances and together bound discrete valleys, wherein the discrete valleys have a depth greater than about 0.30 mm, wherein the depth is determined as described in the section entitled "Test Method" herein; wherein the first and second twill woven MD oriented protuberances have an element angle from 5.0 to 10.0 degrees, wherein the element angle is the orientation of the MD oriented protuberance along its longitudinal axis relative to the MD axis of the fabric; and wherein the first and second twill woven CD oriented protuberances have an element angle from 65 to 75 degrees, wherein the element angle is the orientation of the CD oriented protuberance along its longitudinal axis relative to the MD axis of the fabric; wherein the element angle is determined as described in the section entitled "Test Method" herein.