the present invention comprises the variegated patterning of fabrics by passing the fabric adjacent an applicator edge , forming a continuous sheet of a first coating of sufficiently low viscosity to penetrate the fabric , delivering discrete units of a second coating being of a viscosity sufficiently low to penetrate the fabric , permitting said first and second coatings to interdisperse and delivering the interdispersed coatings to the applicator edge , and applying the coating to the fabric as a continuous sheet flowing from the applicator edge directly onto the surface of the passing fabric , and the apparatus therefor .