PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a bulky and soft nonwoven cloth composed of polyolefin fibers capable of hot melt-coating suitable for a top sheet, a back sheet, or a side gathering part of an absorbent article used for a sanitary material, and capable of preventing the strike-through of a SAP which is an absorbent article, good in productivity, and good in process suitability.SOLUTION: The nonwoven cloth is constituted by a plurality of layers at least one layer of which is composed of fine fibers having a fiber diameter of 0.1-3 μm, and has a plurality of emboss parts embossed over the whole surface, where the minimum distances from boundaries between nearest four emboss parts adjacent to an arbitrary emboss part and a non-emboss part to a boundary between the arbitrary emboss part and the non-emboss part are respectively 1.8 mm or more and less than 4.5 mm, and the percentage of an area of pressed parts formed by the emboss process occupied in the total area of the nonwoven cloth is 8% or more and less than 14%.SELECTED DRAWING: NoneCOPYRIGHT: (C)2020,JPO&INPIT【課題】衛生材料に用いられる吸収性物品のトップシート、バックシート又はサイドギャザー部に適したホットメルト塗工や吸収物品であるＳＡＰの裏抜けが防止でき、生産性が良く、工程適正の良いポリオレフィン系繊維からなる嵩高柔軟不織布の提供。【解決手段】複数の層で構成されており、少なくとも１層が繊維径０．１～３μｍの微細繊維からなり、かつ、全面にわたりエンボス加工された複数のエンボス部を有する不織布であって、任意のエンボス部に隣接する近い方から４つのエンボス部の非エンボス部との境界から該任意のエンボス部の非エンボス部との境界までの最短距離がいずれも１．８ｍｍ以上４．５ｍｍ未満であり、かつ、該不織布の全面積に占める該エンボス加工による圧着部の面積割合が８％以上１４％未満である前記不織布。【選択図】なし
