Directional water transport fabric plays a pivotal role in personal thermal management. However, it has remained a greatchallenge to reach the target only by texture design and yarn coordination. Here, we reported a trilayered woven fabric (TWF)with directional water transport performance by combining a hierarchical microporous structure and asymmetric wettability. The TWF is composed of interweaved plain weave layer (PWL), basket weave layer (BWL) and float layer (FL), whichprovides the continuous water transfer paths by the continuous warp yarns that move back and forth in the thickness directionof the fabric. The asymmetric structure of the TWF endows the fabric with excellent directional water management property,which can be tailored by the fineness and the wetting state of weft yarn in the three layers, and the groove structure on thesurface of the PWL. The resulting TWF exhibited a high directional water transport index R (435%). The mechanism for thedirectional water transport of the BWF was investigated by analyzing the capillary force, hydrostatic pressure and hydrophobicforce. Moreover, the universality of the fabric design approach was verified by two kinds of bilayered woven fabrics (BWFs)which have an analogous texture to the TWF. Therefore, the reported method for designing directional water transport fabricthrew light on developing eco-friendly water management textiles with good durability for demanding situations.