Patent ID: 8414995

Claim:
A textile web having a length and a width, the textile web being substantially continuous, the textile web comprising: a plurality of yarns tufted to define a motif, the motif being repeated along the length and width of the textile web so that the textile web comprises a plurality of occurrences of the motif, wherein the plurality of occurrences of the motif each comprise a design module repeated to form a unitary array of substantially identical design modules, wherein adjacent design modules of the unitary array of design modules are contiguous with one another, and wherein the design modules of the unitary array of design modules have various orientations with respect to one another in fixed positions within the unitary array of design modules so that a first design module of the unitary array of design modules has a first orientation and a second design module of the unitary array of design modules has a second orientation, wherein the design module having the first orientation is visually distinct from the design module having the second orientation.