Microapertured polymeric web exhibiting soft and silky tactile impression

A microapertured polymeric web exhibiting a soft and silky tactile impression on at least one surface thereof, said silky feeling surface of said web exhibiting a pattern of discrete volcano-like surface aberrations which are not individually discernible to the normal naked eye when the perpendicular distance between said web and the observer's eye is at least about 12 inches, the density of said surface aberrations being at least about 3,600 per square inch, the center-to-center distance between adjacent surface aberrations not exceeding about 25 mils, each of said surface aberrations having its amplitude oriented substantially perpendicular to the surface in which said surface aberration originates and exhibiting a maximum cross-sectional dimension not exceeding about 20 mils, as measured perpendicular to its amplitude, the end of each of said surface aberrations further including at least one microaperture substantially coincidental with its point of maximum amplitude, said microaperture exhibiting a multiplicty of thin, irregularly shaped petals about its periphery, said microaperture further creating a discontinuity which reduces the resistance to compression and shear of each of said surface aberrations as well as the degree of contact with the observer's skin, whereby the tactile impression of said web is pereived as generally soft and silky.