Fibrous shaped article having non-level surface

A fibrous shaped article having a surface with raised and depressed portions, said fibrous article consisting of a unitary laminated structure resulting from the compression molding under heat of (A) a heat compression-moldable nonwoven fibrous web and (B) a nonwoven fibrous sheet, said fibrous sheet (B) being laminated to at least one surface of said fibrous web (A);

• said fibrous web (A) having a compression stress, at 10% compression at the temperature of said compression molding, of at least 0.5 g/cm.sup.2 ;
• said nonwoven fibrous sheet (B) consisting of a continuous unitary reticulated sheet structure of an assembly of many fibers of a thermoplastic polymer, said constituent fibers having both an initial modulus of not more than 5 g/denier and an elongation of at least 20%, at the temperature of said compression molding and being interconnected in a spaced-apart relationship, and said nonwoven fibrous sheet (B) having a plastic deformation ratio, at 30% elongation at the temperature of said compression molding, of at least 50% and an elongation stress, at 30% elongation at the temperature of said compression molding, of not more than 0.15 kg/cm;
• and said web (A) and said sheet (B) satisfying the following relation:
• S.ltoreq.0.03T
• in which T is the compression stress (g/cm.sup.2) of said web (A) at 10% compression at the temperature of said compression molding, and S is the elongation stress (kg/cm) of said sheet (B) at 30% elongation at the temperature of said compression molding and said fibrous shaped article having an air permeability of more than 2 ml.cm.sup.-2.sec.sup.-1, a sound absorption ratio of more than 3% at 100-500 Hz, more than 3% at 500-2000 Hz and more than 30% at more than 2000 Hz, a flexural strength of more than 0.03 kg.cm.sup.-1, and a modulus of elasticity of more than 0.04 kg.cm.sup.-2.