to dry strength ratios ranging between 25 to 40 relatively soft hand and good absorptive capacity sink times of 2 4 to 3 0 seconds wicking in the md of 4 0 to 6 0 cm sec and wicking in the cd of 3 7 to 4 9 cm sec were also measured tests of different rayon pva fiber blends were then conducted to determine the optimal fiber compositional ranges where the product was optimized to be used as a baby wipe all trials were run at 50 fpm using scrambled web the same fabrication process for apertured fabric as in the tests for table va was used table vb shows a summary of the pva fiber compositions and their nonwoven properties fig1 16 are bar charts depicting the tests results comparatively fig1 illustrates the pva fiber percentage amount versus weight normalized md dry tensile strength fig1 the pva fiber percentage versus cd dry tensile strength fig1 the pva fiber percentage versus md wet tensile strength and fig1 the pva fiber percentage versus cd wet tensile strength table vb__________________________________________________________________________pva in blend versus nonwoven properties dry tens md wet tens md dry tens cd wet tens cdrun wt gsy rayon pva strip g in gsy strip g in gsy strip g in gsy strip g in gsy__________________________________________________________________________1 64 5 98 2 65 2 27 3 4 3 n a2 63 4 96 4 66 8 27 9 5 5 4 3 3 71 1 90 10 98 7 33 1 13 1 5 54 72 8 84 16 110 3 33 1 16 2 5 05 69 5 82 18 127 2 38 4.