is preferably carded and cross lapped to form a fibrous batt designated f in a current embodiment the fibrous batt comprises 100 cross lap fibers that is all of the fibers of the web have been formed by cross lapping a carded web so that the fibers are oriented at an angle relative to the machine direction of the resultant web u s pat no 5 475 903 hereby incorporated by reference illustrates a web drafting apparatus a support layer or scrim is then placed in face to face to face juxtaposition with a first fibrous web and hydroentangled to form precursor web p alternately the fibrous web can be hydroentangled first to form precursor web p and subsequently at least one support layer or scrim is applied to the precursor web and the composite construct optionally further entangled with non imaging hydraulic manifolds then imparted with a three dimensional image on an image transfer device 0027 fig1 illustrates a hydroentangling apparatus for forming nonwoven fabrics in accordance with the present invention the apparatus includes a foraminous forming surface in the form of belt 10 upon which the precursor web p is positioned for pre entangling by entangling manifold 12 pre entangling of the precursor web prior to three dimensional imaging is subsequently effected by movement of the web p sequentially over a drum 14.