Patterned Nonwoven Substrates Made from Forming Surface with Regions of High Porosity and Low Porosity

A process for forming nonwoven substrates comprising:

• depositing a wet suspension of fibers onto a forming surface, the suspension of fibers including at least a first type of fiber having an average fiber length, the forming surface including a pattern of porous first zones and porous second zones, the first zones having a porosity greater than a porosity of the second zones, the porosity of the second zones being at least 50% less than the porosity of the first zones, wherein the suspension of fibers contains a plurality of different types of fibers and the second zones have a width dimension that is greater in distance than the average fiber length of the fiber type with the longest fibers in the suspension of fibers;
• and
• draining fluids from the forming surface causing a nonwoven substrate to form having high basis weight areas corresponding to the first zones and low basis weight areas corresponding to the second zones.