A floor mat article for removing and holding dust, mud, dirt, and water and a process for making a floor mat. The matting article can include a lofty nonwoven web of entangled fibers and a pressure-sensitive adhesive coating. The lofty nonwoven web can include organic crimped staple fibers which can be adhesively bonded together by a binder resin to form a three dimensional network of intercommunicated voids constituting at least 75% of the volume. The matting article can have a maximum density of 95 kilograms per cubic meter. The process can include forming a nonwoven web of crimped staple organic fibers; coating the nonwoven web with a binder resin; heat curing the coated nonwoven web; and applying a pressure-sensitive adhesive to a first major surface of the coated nonwoven web.