cut to expose more of the interior cells enabling better contact between the foam coating and the cells in the substrate to achieve the desired textured pattern various elastomeric materials have been found which achieve the desired result the presently preferred elastomeric material is an acrylic coating which has the basic formulation set forth below in example i example i______________________________________acrylic latex parts parts by weight solidscomponents weight content ______________________________________a polymeric emulsioncomposition in water basedon ethyl acrylate acrylonitrile andmethylolacrylamide for 100 43 02 55 0example rhoplex tr 621 manufactured by rohm andhaas company sodium salts of acopolymer of maleicanhydride and diisobutylene for example tamol 731 1 6 0 7 0 4manufactured by rohm andhass company titanium dioxide rutile for example titanox ra 45from titanium pigments 12 5 5 38 12 5corp of americaaluminum hydrate 55 23 67 55 0melamine formaldehyde resin for example aerotex m 3manufactured by american 2 3 0 99 1 8cyanamid emulsion copolymer ofethyl acrylate andmethacrylic acid forexample acrysol ase 60 2 9 1 25 0 8manufactured by rohm andhaas company ammonium hydroxide 28 2 0 0 86 ammonium stearate 7 0 3 01 2 3water 49 1 21 12 ______________________________________total 232 4 100 00 127 8______________________________________ water and the ammonia nh sub 3 gas given off by the ammonium hydroxide constitute all the non solid portion of the above formulation of example i in the above described preferred emulsion formulation the sodium salts of the copolymer of maleic anhydride and diisobutylene are dispersants for the pigment titanium dioxide is a pigment to give opacity and whiteness aluminum hydrate is primarily for flame retardance the melamine formaldehyde resin.