Decorative material

Claim 1

A COMPOSITE DECORATIVE ARTICLE, COMPRISING A TWOPLY LAMINATE HAVING SMOOTHE AND UNINTERRUPTED OUTER SURFACES, SAID LAMINATE BEING FORMED OF A TRANSPARENT FIRST THERMOPLASTIC LAYER EMBOSSED ON ITS INNER SURFACE IN A RELATIVELY FINE TIGHTLY WOVEN TEXTILE YARN PATTERN AND CONTAINING IN SAID PATTERN A COLORING MATERIAL, AND A SECOND THERMOPLASTIC LAYER BONDED ALONG ITS INNER SURFACE TO SAID FIRST LAYER TO PROVIDE AN ARTICLE WHEREIN SAID COLORED PATTERN IS VISIBLE THROUGH SAID FIRST LAYER AND SIMULATES A STRUCTURE IN WHICH THE PHYSICAL SOURCE FOR SAID PATTERN IS ACTUALLY CONTAINED THEREIN, SAID PATTERN IN CROSS-SECTION BEING COMPRISED OF TRANSVERSELY AND LONGITUDINALLY SPACED REAPPEARING GENTLY SLOPING VALLEYS AND RELATIVELY SHALLOW CONCAVE POCKETS SPACED FROM SAID VALLEYS, SAID VALLEYS AT THE BOTTOM THEREOF CONTAINING A RELATIVELY LARGE QUANTITY OF COLORING MATERIAL WHICH DIMINISHES IN TAPERED CONFIGURATION ALONG THE SLOPES OF SAID VALLEYS TOWARD SAID POCKETS WHEREIN THERE IS CONTAINED A QUANTITY OF COLORING MATERIAL LESS THAN IN THE BOTTOM OF SAID VALLEYS BUT MORE THAN AT THE PEAK OF SAID SLOPES, THEREBY PRODUCING LIGHT EFFECTS IN THE FORM OF DEEP SHADOWS IN THE BOTTOMS OF SAID VALLEYS,INTERMEDIATE SHADOWS IN SAID POCKETS, AND LIGHT SHADOWS ON THE PEAK OF SAID SLOPES, WHEREBY THERE IS OBTAINED A PRECISE VISIBLE REPRODUCTION OF THE PHYSICAL SOURCE FOR SAID TEXTILE PATTERN.