| abstract |
Bonded fibrous nonwoven textile fabrics having excellent strength and textile-like softness, drape and hand which are intermittently bonded with synthetic resins in predetermined print patterns of binder areas having a relatively high, uniform concentration of from about 50 percent to about 120 percent by weight of resin binder in the binder areas, based on the weight of the fibers therein, said binder areas having very sharply defined borders or edges with a minimum of binder feathering thereat whereby the optical density of the bonded fibrous nonwoven textile fabric very sharply increases from substantially zero to a maximum of at least from about 0.6 to about 1.0 or greater in a distance of less than about 1 mm. (0.04 inch), and methods of depositing such synthetic resins from colloidal aqueous dispersions thereof into wet fibrous webs to form the bonded fibrous nonwoven textile fabrics, comprising the use of (1) metal complex coordination compounds and (2) synthetic resins and/or surfactants, at least one of which contains a specific coordinating ligand capable of being affected by ions or said metals to control the total migration of the resin binder during such deposition. |