Patterned Apertured Nonwoven

The nonwoven substrate according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein some of said plurality of discrete non-aperture zones have an area of 150 mm2 or more, or 200 mm2 or more, or 300 mm2 or more.

The nonwoven substrate according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein each of said plurality of apertures has a size ranging from 0.2 mm2 to 1.5 mm2, or from 0.4 mm2 to 1.3 mm2;

• and/or wherein each of said plurality of apertures has a diameter ranging from 0.5 mm to 1.5 mm, or from 0.7 mm to 1.2 mm;
• and/or wherein said plurality of apertures have regular shapes selected from the group consisting of circle, oval, triangle, square, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, polygon, hour-glass, star, and any combinations thereof.

The nonwoven substrate according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein each of said plurality of discrete non-aperture zones has an area of more than 6 mm2;

• and/or wherein each of said plurality of discrete non-aperture has a minor dimension of more than 2.5 mm.

The nonwoven substrate according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein some of said plurality of discrete non-aperture zones have a major dimension of 15 mm or more, or 18 mm or more, or 20 mm or more.

The nonwoven substrate according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein said plurality of apertures further define one or more aperture zones;

• wherein each of said one or more aperture zones comprises four or more apertures therein;
• wherein each aperture within each of said aperture zones has at least three adjacent apertures that are spaced apart from it by an edge-to-edge distance of no more than 3 mm.

The nonwoven substrate according to any one of the preceding claims, wherein the nonwoven substrate is a relofted nonwoven.

The nonwoven substrate according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the nonwoven substrate has:

• a compression work no less than about 700 gf×mm, as measured according to Compression Property Test;
• and/or
• a basis weight in the range of about 15 gsm to about 75 gsm.