How Is Suede Produced?

Suede is an artificial suede produced by imitating the fur effect of animal suede. Many of its properties are even better than natural suede. The short, delicate and smooth velvet, soft feel, leather-like texture, and retro and fashionable style characteristics make suede widely used in clothing, home textiles, shoes, bags and other fields. This article introduces the suede fabric dyeing production process and production site through pictures and texts, so that you can understand how suede is produced?

The following production process is based on the woven suede production process as an example. The production process of suede of different specifications and varieties is slightly different, but they are all similar.

1. Grey cloth enters the dyeing factory

2. Matching cylinders, turning over and unwinding, and sewing ends: connect the suede grey cloths one by one to prepare for the subsequent production. This link can control the number of blanks to meet the order quantity requirements and prevent over- or under-production.

3. Alkali content, pre-shrinkage, fiber opening: make the sea island silk fiber have the ability to raise the nap. If the alkali content is not enough, the nap will not rise.

4. Dehydration, opening width

5. Pre-setting, make the cloth flat to prepare for the subsequent suede sanding. Usually a certain amount of raising agent will be added here, which is more important. The flatness of the cloth surface can reduce the generation of sanding strips.

6. Sanding, the key to suede raising, is to rotate the rubber stick with emery paper at high speed and rub the nap

7. Semi-finished products to be dyed after sanding

8. Take the semi-finished products after sanding to make color samples and study the formula. Using the sanded semi-finished products to recolor and then dye can improve the accuracy of the color!

9. After the formula is ready, open the formula and drain the dyeing tank

10. Dyeing out of the tank

11. Dehydration

12. Opening

13. Finished product shaping, softener, antistatic agent, waterproof agent and other additives can be added, which is an important process to control the feel, width, weight and thickness.

14. Comb the hair, comb the hair direction, and absorb the floating hair to prevent the finished product from shedding and floating hair

15. The finished product is ready for inspection, rolled, and suede is placed on an A-shaped rack to reduce wrinkles caused by stacking and squeezing

16. Finished product packaging