Patent ID: 7041196

Claim:
A method for making a unitary fibrous structure, the method comprising the steps of: providing a first acqueous slurry including a plurality of cellulosic fibers onto a forming member having a pattern of channels, the cellulosic fibers provided such that at least some of the cellulosic fibers are disposed in the channels; providing a second aqueous slurry including a plurality of synthetic fibers onto the cellulosic fibers such that the synthetic fibers are disposed adjacent to the cellulosic fibers; and forming the unitary fibrous structure from the synthetic fibers and the cellulosic fibers, wherein at least some of the cellulosic fibers form a repeating non-random pattern in the unitary fibrous structure and the synthetic fibers are generally randomly distributed in at least a portion of the unitary fibrous structure such that the unitary fibrous structure has regions of different basis weight.