Method of styling textiles by contour sculpturing

Claim 1

METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SURFACE STYLED PILE ARTICLES WHICH COMPRISES: (A) PROVIDING A RESILIENT POROUS, SELF-SUPPORTING MATERIAL HAVING A BODY FORMED OF A PLURALITY OF CONTORTED FILAMENTARY STRUCTURES WHICH ARE OVERLAPPING AND ARE ALIGNED IN GENERALLY THE SAME DIRECTION, SAID BODY CONSTITUTING A NETWORK WHEREIN AT LEAST A MAJOR PROPORTION OF THE FILAMENTARY STRUCTURES CONTACT EACH OTHER THROUGHOUT THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF THE BODY, THE FIBER DENSITY OF THE BODY BEING BELOW 25 LBS./FT.3, SAID MATERIAL HAVING TWO SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL PLANAR SURFACES, THE PLANES OF WHICH WOULD BE INTERSECTED BY THE AVERATE DIRECTION OF FILAMENT ALIGNMENT BY AN ANGLE OF AT LEAST 30*, (B) DISPLACING ISOLATED VOLUMES OF SAID MATERIAL SUCH THAT SAID PLANAR SURFACES BECOME PATTERNED UNDULATING SURFACES WHICH ARE NON-INTERESECTING WITH THE MEDIAM PLANE DEFINED THEREBY AND WHICH ARE SEPARATED BY A SUBSTANTIALLY CONSTANT THICKNESS DIMENSION AS MEASURED IN A DIRECTION PERPENDICULAR TO SAID MEDIAN PLANE AT THE POINT OF MAXIMUM DISPLACEMENT, AND (C) SLICING THE RESULTING MATERIAL ALONG SAID MEDIA PLANE.