Patent ID: 8056586

Claim:
Woven fabric comprising warp threads or wires and comprising weft wires, with a plurality of offset weft wires, each of the offset weft wires comprising at least one offset section protruding from the woven fabric and non-offset sections located in the woven fabric, wherein the offset weft wires can be turned about respective axes defined by non-offset portions of the offset weft wires located in the woven fabric, so that protruding offset sections can be laid completely flat on the woven fabric, wherein a tension thread fixes two offset sections protruding from the woven fabric at an angle to one another, to the woven fabric, or to one another and to the woven fabric, so that the tension thread protects the protruding offset sections from any undesired turning about the non-offset sections located in the woven fabric and so that a bearing capacity for objects carried separate from the woven fabric at respective tips of the protruding offset sections is increased.