Pearl-like decorative paper having suitability for postforming and thermosetting resin decorative sheet

摘要

A pearl-like decorative paper and a thermosetting resin decorative sheet having postforming suitability with no blisters or cracking generation by the postforming process even in the case of the pearl-like design are provided. In the pearl-like decorative paper 10 having a pearl ink layer 3 containing a pearl pigment on a paper substrate 1, a pearl pigment of a scaly foil of mica covered with a titanium dioxide and/or an iron oxide, and the surface thereof further treated with a zirconium oxide hydrate is used as the pearl pigment. By providing a pattern ink layer 2 of an ordinary ink therebetween, a further better design can be provided. Then, by impregnating the pearl-like decorative paper with a thermosetting resin such as a melamine resin, laminating the same with an adherend 6 such as a backing substrate 4 and an overlaying paper 5, and applying thermal pressing molding for curing the resin, a pearl-like thermosetting resin decorative sheet 20 including a pearl-like decorative paper 10A with the resin cured can be provided.