Patent ID: 7964243

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a material having a textured surface, the method comprising: providing a texturing medium including a flexible web and a surface layer having a three-dimensional texture defining a replicative surface, wherein the surface layer is applied to the flexible web as a first curable coating comprising 20-50% of an acrylated oligomer, 15-35% of a monofunctional monomer, and 20-50% of a multifunctional monomer, the three dimensional texture is imparted to the surface layer by an engraved rotating endless surface with a replicative pattern, and the first curable coating is cured to form the surface layer, providing a substrate to which a textured surface is to be applied, coating the replicative surface and/or the substrate with a second curable coating, contacting the substrate with the texturing medium such that the second curable coating is sandwiched between the substrate and texturing medium, curing the second curable coating by delivering radiation through the texturing medium, and stripping the texturing medium from the substrate such that the cured second curable coating remains on the substrate.