Patent ID: 7968174

Claim:
A decorative material comprising at least a substrate, a low-gloss pattern ink layer formed on part of the substrate, and a surface protective layer which is present on and contacted with the low-gloss pattern ink layer so as to cover a whole surface including both a region where the low-gloss pattern ink layer is formed and a region where no low-gloss pattern ink layer is formed, wherein the surface protective layer is formed by crosslinking and curing an ionizing radiation-curable resin composition containing an ethyleneoxide-modified polymerizable compound, contains baked kaolin particles, and is provided therein with a low-gloss region which is located in a portion just above the low-gloss pattern ink layer and in the vicinity of the portion just above the low-gloss pattern ink layer, and visually recognized as a concave portion, wherein the baked kaolin particles are contained only in the surface protective layer, wherein a low-gloss pattern ink forming the low-gloss pattern ink layer contains a non-crosslinked urethane resin, wherein the ethyleneoxide-modified polymerizable compound has a chain number, n, per molecule, of ethyleneoxide repeating units in the ethyleneoxide-modified moiety thereof that is in a range of 2 to 20, and wherein said low-gloss region is a region in which, prior to curing the ionizing radiation-curable resin composition of the surface protective layer, resin components of ink contained in the low-gloss pattern ink layer and uncured radiation-curable resin of the ionizing radiation-curable resin composition are mixed but not completely compatibilized with each other and are kept in a suspended state, which mixture is fixed upon crosslinking and curing the surface protective layer, whereby in the low-gloss region the low-gloss pattern ink and the resin composition of the surface protective layer have interacted with each other to provide partial elution, dispersion and mixing therebetween, so as to be in the suspended state which is fixed in the low-gloss region.