Abstract: A web of gray cotton fibers is entangled by passing it under a series of low pressure liquid nozzles or jets which are oscillated in a direction transverse to the direction of travel of the web. The entangled web is then subjected to a cotton scouring step, and then dried, to produce a strong coherent nonwoven fabric that requires no resin binder and has a high capacity for water. Particular parameters of liquid pressure, frequency and amplitude of oscillation of the nozzles or jets and energy transferred from the jets to the fibers have to be maintained.