To provide wet-laid nonwoven fabric which contains main constituent fiber and a binder component, the main constituent fiber adhered by the binder component, has high stiffness while being bulky and can be formed as various shapes, and textiles made of the wet-laid nonwoven fabric.

Wet-laid nonwoven fabric contains main constituent fiber and a binder component, and the main constituent fiber is adhered by the binder component. As for a monofilament cross-section shape of the main constituent fiber, ovality is not more than 2.0 and there are two or more openings having angular aperture within 120 degrees.