5 tips for styling a leather sofa

Yiguan leather,a China leather factory

1. Add some fabric.

I love leather, both in my wardrobe and in my decor. It’s durable, timeless and fancy. But the problem with leather is this: it’s not really cosy. And that’s what you eventually want from your sofa, right? An inviting place to rest at the end of a busy day. So there’s nothing like some well chosen fabric to cosy up your leather couch. Add some pillows, a throw, a nice carpet or a cow hide. Don’t be afraid to mix textures, print and colours.

2. Add some green.

There are few home dilemma’s  that  plants can’t solve, and this is no exception. A touch of green will add a splash of colour to your (probably neutral) couch. Never hurts!

3. Combine with elegant furniture.

Balance out your heavy sofa with some more elegant pieces. A table with metal legs, frames with a thin border, interesting standing lamps…

4. Consider moving your sofa away from the wall. 

If you have the space for it, and especially if it’s a larger piece, place it away from the wall. It creates a more open feeling in your room and the space will look larger, even if it’s just 20 cm from the wall. If it’s a special piece, like the sofa’s above, the space may need little more.

5. Opt for light walls

Don’t get me wrong, I totally dig luxurious, dark, eccentric spaces. But if you have a smaller house, try keeping the walls light and bright to balance the sofa.

Leather Maintenance(2)

Third, leather care instructions:

1, ordinary leather The first layer of skin is the animal skin, good elasticity, fiber tight, you can see the skin injury, knife injury or toothpick marks, and leather itself pores, blood tendons and veins. The first layer of skin without treatment, the top tight, the following more loose, a transition due to leather processing dyeing staining, so the use of a period of time, especially the lighter color of the leather surface, there will be slight decolorization and wear skin, is a normal phenomenon .

2,patent leather: the surface is coated with high brightness light paint or crystal paint, gloss, leather surface firm, uniform color, suitable for the manufacture of popular fashion leather. High water resistance, no air permeability. Due to finishing heavy, cover strong, and more use of the first layer of defects and more skin production. Maintenance methods: the patent leather scratch is difficult to repair, try to avoid the use of hard objects, gravel scratches, wipe with a soft towel, not in the sun exposure or roasted, in order to prevent the leather surface hard, available colorless Care oil care, and wipe clean with a clean cloth back and forth, so as to maintain the original luster.

3, oil skin: When scratched with a fingernail when the surface will appear anti-white phenomenon. After hand rubbing will return to primary colors. This skin type oily, moist, thick but not hard, shiny. The first layer, there are two. Cleaning method: put a small amount of cotton on the leather oil, wipe evenly. Maintenance and precautions: pay attention to waterproof, anti-grease, try to avoid scratches with hard objects collision, resulting in cortical injury will not be able to recover. Oily heavy leather adhesive effect is poor, easy to open plastic. Can be used for maintenance of skin oil, such as Bili beads, varnish and the like.

4, water leather, waxing leather: test method: water dyed leather, waxing the surface without any decoration, just dyeing only, after polishing the surface of striae clear, three-dimensional sense of strong, smooth feel. Water dip leather surface, a significant wet India, the skin surface water. Cleaning method: in the cleaning process, can not use oil-based agent, the best rub with an eraser. Care and precautions: Water dyed leather, waxing leather is uncoated leather, easy to absorb moisture and stains, color is more prominent, the use should pay attention to avoid water or other stains, avoid contact with oil, not Rain, when not wipe the dust, keep the leather surface brightness, to prevent mildew.

5, wrinkled skin test method: the texture of the skin is more natural, a rough fine, feel better, through the wrestling machine is made of many beat processing. Cleaning method: easy to clean, with the general skin oil can be cleaned. Maintenance and Note: When not in use, it is best to hang up; if flat, to put on the surface, to avoid crushing wrinkles by other items, affecting the appearance.

Light and diverse artificial leather clothing sought after

At first glance, the jacket and skirt with leather products, but in fact, this is made of chemical fiber processing, similar to the leather texture of fabric "artificial leather", this fabric because of its light texture, simple maintenance And become popular this fall dressing material.

Artificial leather is made of polyurethane and polyester fiber and other chemical fiber processing, imitation leather texture made of material.

In general, compared with a heavy sense of leather to wear up more light, the price is also cheaper. Recently, due to advances in technology, leatherette in nature and closer to ordinary leather.

Europe and the United States this spring and autumn 2012 to 13 fashion show, many brands have published leather elegant clothing, by this effect, in the store, the leather products and leather products side by side on the shelves.

For example, the new product jacket "LEJOUR" (21,450 yen) from the Sanyo Chamber of Commerce (Tokyo), a big company in the apparel industry. Although the soft fabric is like a real sheepskin, but in fact made of 100% polyester fiber, lightweight and scalable at the same time. With the same paragraph of the skirt (13,650 yen), will create a capable temperament.

The orange breeches (17,550 yen) of "MACKINTOSHPHILOSOPHY" produced by the agency are made of polyester fiber, but they look almost the same as fur. Breeches with a simple cut, and with a pattern of sweater with a very appropriate.

Artificial leather is very easy to process, can also make a variety of new design. "NAVY.WO" is a thin jacket (27,300 yen), which is made of artificial leather in the cuffs and back part. The jacket is characterized by a brisk movement. Color camel, navy, black three.

The unique design of the skirt with different colors (11,995 yen) is also well received, a total of the former film camel back film black, black film after the front piece of dark blue to choose the two. And before and after the film in any color with the same color of the jacket with, it will show an elegant atmosphere. "I'm very looking forward to this 

The Development Trend of Synthetic Leather Industry(1)

 Artificial leather, synthetic leather is the last century, one of the great inventions of mankind. Artificial leather in China began in the late 50s of last century,China's leather industry is one of the early development of the industry. After several decades of construction, especially in the 1970s, continued to the 1990s to introduce Japan, Italy and other countries the production of synthetic leather advanced equipment and technology. With the development of high-tech at home and abroad and the application of advanced industrial equipment, China's synthetic leather industry management, technology, product quality has been a qualitative leap, especially in recent years, China's synthetic leather industry has become the world's largest producer , Consumption power, import and export power.

New fiber technology continues to flood

Now with the development of modern high-tech, the current production of PU synthetic leather in terms of product quality, variety, or production have been rapid growth, its performance is getting closer to natural leather, some aspects of performance even more than natural leather. Such as anti-breaking strength, anti-tear strength, anti-peel strength, anti-sewing strength, abrasion resistance, flexural strength, cold resistance, aging resistance, fatigue, oil, chemical corrosion, mildew antibacterial, moisture permeability Performance, according to need, after special treatment, can be superior to the leather, to achieve the performance and appearance of natural leather quality and difficult to distinguish true and false degree. After the 90's, synthetic fiber and non-woven manufacturing, but also toward the ultra-fine, high density and high non-woven effect of direction. Polyurethane resin manufacturing to the PU dispersion, PU water emulsion direction. Product applications continue to expand in the daily lives of mankind occupies an increasingly important position.

Artificial Leather Development Process

Artificial leather production in the world more than 60 years of development history , the early 

scientists the chemical composition and structure of natural leather starting from research and 

analysis , the earliest use of leather in 1921 nitrocellulose coated fabrics made of nitrification 

fiber cloth, which is the first generation of artificial leather.
 

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In 1937 Germany led by Professor Bayer research work on the success of the polyurethane

 resin , polyurethane leather and synthetic leather development has laid a good foundation.

 Following the PVC artificial leather ,, pu synthetic leather through science and technology 

experts 30 years of painstaking research and development in 1953, Germany launched the 

first polyurethane leatherette aspects of the patent , as the ideal substitute for natural leather ,

 was a breakthrough technological advances . Japan in 1962 and the introduction of the 

patent from Germany, Japan, the same year Xingguo Chemical Industry Company leather is 

also made of polyurethane . Around 1963, DuPont successfully developed PU synthetic 

leather, its appearance , physical constitution and feeling closer to natural leather , grades for 

corfam. 2 , Japan Kurashiki Rayon Company have also made ​​the trade name of synthetic

 leather clarino . Then Toyo Tire & Rubber Company is also made of polyurethane synthetic 

leather Patra , Teijin 's brother Utrecht also studied successful.

On this basis , scientists have made ​​many improvements and exploration: the first is to 

improve the terms of the substrate , followed by coating resin modified and improved . 

To the 1970s , synthetic fibers, non-woven acupuncture appears to form a network , bond and

 other technology into a network , so that the substrate has a lotus -shaped cross-section ,

 hollow fiber , to the porous structure and in the reticular structure of natural leather Claim.

Then synthetic leather surface has been able to do the fine pore structure of the polyurethane

 layer , the equivalent of natural grain leather , so that the appearance and internal structure

 pu leather and natural leather gradually close , other physical properties are close to natural

 leather index , the color is more vivid than natural leather , folding its normal temperature 

reached 100 million or more , cold folding can reach the level of natural leather .

Currently, there have been domestic and international markets microfiber polyurethane 

synthetic leather is the third generation of artificial leather, it is the use of natural leather 

collagen fiber bundle structure similar performance microfiber, a three-dimensional network 

structure made of high density non-woven fabric, combined with pu slurry impregnated with 

a newly developed open pore structure, the surface layer of the composite processing 

technology has played a huge surface area of microfiber absorbent and strong role in

 making ultra-fine grade pu synthetic leather having a beam like ultra -fine natural leather

 collagen fibers inherent hygroscopic properties, and thus, whether from the internal 

microstructure, texture or appearance and physical properties and people wearing comfort, 

etc., can be comparable with the advanced natural leather. In addition, microfiber synthetic 

leather in chemical resistance, uniformity of mass, large-scale production and processing 

adaptability waterproof, mildew degeneration, etc., more than natural leather. Practice has 

proved that the excellent performance of synthetic leather is natural leather can not be 

replaced, from domestic and international market analysis, synthetic leather has largely 

replaced the inadequate resources of natural leather. Using leather and synthetic leather to

 make bags, clothes, shoes, vehicles and furniture decoration, has received increased 

recognition of the market a wide range of applications, the number of large, variety, is the 

traditional natural leather can not be met.
In summary, the production of artificial leather industry has several decades of history , with 

the application of new materials , which are constantly updated product definition . Base

 fabric woven from today to a nonwoven fabric ; resin used in the resin from polyvinyl chloride, 

acrylic acid into the polyurethane ; fiber use from ordinary polyester, nylon, rayon and other 

synthetic fibers and the development of lotus -shaped fiber and ultrafine fiber and other 

functional differential fiber . From the style of products, artificial tanning has gone from low to 

high-end , from profiling to the development of the simulation , the characteristics and

 development direction of getting closer to the natural leather. After years of continuous 

research and development , pu synthetic leather in terms of product quality, variety , or 

yields have been rapid growth performance closer to natural leather, some performance even 

more than natural leather, reached the natural leather doubtful attainment in human daily life

 occupies a very important position.