What Kind Of Fabric Is Suede? What Are The Specifications Of Suede?
Suede is a textile fabric that imitates natural suede. It is also called imitation suede, artificial suede, deerskin, etc. Because of the homonym, Cantonese people also call it chicken skin. Imitation suede popularizes fashion, not only meeting the needs of different consumer levels, but also overcoming the various disadvantages of natural suede.
The characteristic of suede is that the surface has dense, fine and soft short hairs, and the style is very similar to natural suede. There are three types of woven, warp knitted and non-woven fabrics. All of them use sea-island composite ultrafine polyester as the main raw material. They are processed into fabrics by weaving or warp knitting, non-woven methods, and the "sea" is dissolved in the post-finishing process, so that the cloth surface presents ultrafine fibers below 0.1dtex. After proper grinding, the cloth surface presents a suede effect and the fabric feels soft. It is suitable for making windbreakers, jackets, sweatshirts, etc. in spring and autumn. It can also be used as bags, shoe uppers, gloves, hats, sofa covers and packaging materials for electronic components.
Natural suede is expensive and rare, so suede now generally refers to imitation suede!
Common suede specifications:
Woven suede
The specifications of weft suede products are 15×5×33, and the raw material specifications are 75D×225D. It is generally woven using satin weave method. There are five, six, and eight suede. It can be produced on both water jet looms and air jet looms. The product features good velvet, softness, fineness, and low price. It is a suede with a high cost performance in the suede family!
Knitted suede:
Warp knitted suede:
Warp knitted suede uses warp knitting high-speed textile manufacturing technology. The general yarn count specifications are 75D and 50D, which makes this product have advantages that other velvets cannot match. Then it is processed by sophisticated technology such as pre-shrinking, shaping, and dyeing. The fabric produced in this way has the advantages of soft hand feeling, good drape, good wearability, and easy care. Characteristics and functions of warp knitted suede:
This fabric is suitable for making casual clothes and skirts for beautiful women. It is fashionable and elegant when worn, and adds attractive charm. It can be further processed by post-processing, such as hot stamping, printing, compounding, punching, etc. It is the most commonly used fabric for fur and fur facial suede. At present, the supply of upstream sea island silk FDY75D/36F*37 island is tight. People of insight believe that this fabric meets people's needs for novelty and fashion, so the sales prospects continue to be optimistic.
Four-way stretch suede is born with the fashion trend. It integrates the essence of stretch fabrics and gives full play to the four-way stretch effect, which makes the fabric reach a new level. The warp and weft are made of polyester sea island FDY75D + spandex 40D, with a composition and content of 90%T10%SP, and is woven on a knitting circular machine. The fabric structure makes it have good texture and color effects, good air permeability, elasticity, close fit and warmth, and has won the favor of many fashionable women. Its fabric width is 148cm and its weight is about 180g/. It is not only suitable for making women's casual wear, skirts and other clothing, but also for making fashionable fabrics for luggage. When worn on the body, it is both comfortable and decent, and full of youthful charm.
