What is the type of leather for my couch? Is microfiber leather suitable for sofa?

With the diversification of house decoration, leather sofa with its practicality and comfort has become the furniture commonly used in home decoration. But how to choose a comfortable, affordable sofa? This article will introduce you about the 4 types of leather commonly used for sofa and their textures. Leather for sofa can be divided into : genuine leather, artificial leather, microfiber leather, bounded leather, and so on, next we will talk about the characteristics of these materials in detail, we can understand later targeted to buy related products.

Microfiber leather

Microfiber leather, also known as microfiber reinforced PU leather, belongs to a kind of synthetic leather. It is mainly made of leather scraps and other materials crushed into certain size leather fibers after processing. Good breathability, aging resistance, softness and comfortable and flexibility make it become more and more popular around the world and become the substitute for real leather . Its leather grain can be very similar to real leather, which feels soft. The leather is generally thick and its strength is slightly lower than PU leather.

Genuine leather

Genuine leather, also called real leather, can be divided into pig leather, cow leather, sheep leather, horse leather, donkey leather and kangaroo leather, and a small amount of fish leather, reptile leather, amphibian leather, ostrich leather and so on.

Artificial leather

On the textile fabric base or non-woven fabric base, by a variety of different formulations of PVC or PU foaming or coated processing, artificial leather is produced. With a wide variety of colors, good waterproof performance, neat edge, high utilization rate and relatively cheaper price leather characteristics, it is widely applied. But for the vast majority of artificial leather, the feel and elasticity can not be compared with that of genuine leather. Besides, in the longitudinal section, you can see tiny bubble holes, fabric or surface film and artificial fibers.

Bounded leather

The process of bounded leather has three main steps. The raw materials of real leather or recycled leather are crushed into leather fibers of a certain size, and then mixed with natural rubber, resin and other raw materials, and then compressed into filter cake. After that, the filter cake is heated so that the fiber on its surface is melted and sticky. Each layer is extruded, bonded, dehydrated and formed. The final product is obtained after cooling and drying, slicing, embodying and surface treatment.

Summary:

You must have get the general idea about sofa leather after reading. In fact, the choice of sofa leather material should be put in the first place when buying sofa. Good material makes a really good quality sofa.