Colored multilayered composite fabrics

A multilayer composite comprising two or more different fibrous material layers, said composite comprising:

• a) a perforated, colored outer fibrous material layer, said outer fibrous material layer comprising one or more woven fibrous plies;
• said outer fibrous material layer being colored with a camouflage pattern;
• and wherein said perforations comprise a pattern of shaped openings cut into and completely through the thickness outer fibrous material layer;
• b) a fibrous base layer adjoined with the outer fibrous material layer, said fibrous base layer comprising one or more non-woven fibrous plies, each of said fibrous plies comprising fibers having a tenacity of greater than 15 g/denier;
• wherein the outer fibrous material layer has a different colored appearance than the fibrous base layer;
• and
• c) a colored polymeric material between and attached to each of said outer fibrous material layer and said fibrous base layer;
• wherein each of said colored polymeric material and said fibrous base layer are positioned directly behind the perforations of the outer fibrous material layer;
• said colored polymeric material having one color, wherein the color of the colored polymeric material is the same as one of the colors of said camouflage pattern of the outer fibrous material layer wherein the colored polymeric material is partially exposed through said perforations and wherein visual exposure of the fibrous base layer through said perforations is at least partially obscured by the colored polymeric material;
• and wherein the portions of the colored polymeric material exposed through said perforations are camouflaged by the fibrous material layer.

A method of forming a multilayer composite that comprises two or more different fibrous material layers, said composite comprising:

• a) providing a perforated, colored outer fibrous material layer, wherein perforations are cuts through said outer fibrous material layer and the outer fibrous material layer comprising one or more fibrous plies, and wherein each of said fibrous plies comprises fibers having a tenacity of 10 g/denier or less;
• said outer fibrous material layer having at least one color;
• b) providing a colored polymeric material, wherein said colored polymeric material is colored with a color that matches at least one color of said outer fibrous material layer;
• c) providing a fibrous base layer, said fibrous base layer comprising one or more fibrous plies, each of said fibrous plies comprising fibers having a tenacity of greater than 20 g/denier;
• wherein the outer fibrous material layer has a different colored appearance than the fibrous base layer;
• and
• d) attaching the fibrous base layer to the outer fibrous material layer coextensively wherein at least a portion of the colored polymeric material is positioned between the fibrous base layer and the outer fibrous material layer, wherein a portion of the colored polymeric material is positioned directly behind each of the perforations in said fibrous material layer;
• wherein the colored polymeric material is partially exposed through said perforations and wherein visual exposure of the fibrous base layer through said perforations is at least partially obscured by the colored polymeric material;
• and wherein the portions of the colored polymeric material exposed through said perforations are camouflaged by the fibrous material layer.