| 摘要 |
<p>Provided are an extensible nonwoven fabric on which the source, the medicinal component, a pattern and/or other pieces of information are recognizable not only at beginning of the use of the fabric but also during use; and a method for manufacturing the nonwoven fabric. The nonwoven fabric of the invention is a nonwoven fabric made mainly of highly crimped fibers, partially having a compressed region where no fibers are melted and bonded to each other, and having a tensile strength of 25 N/5-cm-width or more in both the machine direction and the cross direction. This nonwoven fabric may be manufactured by causing a water jet having a pressure of 5 MPa or more to act onto a fiber web made mainly of a latent crimpable fiber, thereby forming an entangled fiber web, causing heat to act onto the entangled fiber web, thereby crimping the latent crimpable fiber to convert the fiber to a highly crimped fiber and contracting, at the time of the conversion, the area of the entangled fiber web by 30% or more, thereby forming a contracted fiber web, and embossing the contracted fiber web in such a manner that the fibers are not melted and bonded to each other.</p> |
