Patent ID: 8419878

Claim:
A method of making a laminate for use as a clothing tag, the method comprising: embossing a paper web to provide a texturized outer surface of the paper web, wherein the paper web comprises cellulosic fibers, and wherein embossing the paper web provides compressed areas and uncompressed areas; thereafter, saturating the paper web with a first binder composition, wherein the first binder composition comprises from about 10% by weight to about 100% by weight of the dry weight of the paper web, and wherein the first binder composition comprises a first curable latex polymer, a first crosslinker, and a pigment, wherein the first binder composition is saturated into the paper web unevenly such that a lesser amount of first binder composition is present in the compressed areas of the paper web compared to the amount of first binder composition present in the non-compressed areas of the paper web; thereafter, laminating the paper web to a base web to form a laminate such that the texturized outer surface of the paper web forms an outer surface of the laminate, wherein the base web comprises cellulosic fibers and a second binder composition which is present in the base web from about 10% by weight to about 100% by weight based on the dry weight of the base web, wherein the second binder composition comprises a second curable latex polymer and a second crosslinker; and aging the laminate for at least about 1 hour at an aging temperature of greater than about 150° F.