Did you know that people used cotton and wool to make fabrics for more than 3000 B.C., and now these upholstery fabrics are available for
many different uses of various tastes? Living in today’s world means facing super-fast changes and millions of old things that have already been
new, so one of the most challenging problems in the modern world is to be adapted to the swift shifting and not get easily bored.
By increasing the power of media and specifically social media like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and so forth, fashion is giving us new
styles, tastes, colors, in a nutshell, everything, almost every day.
Consequently, people need to find a harmonious way to be looked up-to-date and stylish, through changing their home appliances, having
trend colors for daily use, or even modifying their lifestyle. Here upholstery fabrics come and play their significant roles.
As you may know, there are some basic elements in decorating a house including walls’ color, furniture, table set, digital appliances like
refrigerator, freezer, toaster, TV set, PCs or laptops, and lights.
It can mostly be said that furniture has a very eye-catching role that nobody can reject. In connection with furniture, the very first point that
came to mind is the upholstery fabric, which can be used in different uses like the sofa and couches cloth, covering of seats and chairs, curtains,
and the huge world of clothing.
We are not intended to discuss other home appliances like digital ones, focusing only on upholstery fabrics which need to be considered a lot
and in detail.
What is Upholstery Fabric Made of
After having noticed the sofa style, frame, and color, the question will come to mind is that what is this sofa fabric made of.
Choosing its material, upholstery fabric will be highly prominent because the sofa is a commodity first, and its quality needs to be guaranteed
second. It should be said that you have to choose a textile that none of your family members has an allergy to it. It might be human skin-
friendly. It is better to be made of natural materials rather than a chemical combination or in other words, synthetic.
Your chosen fabric has to get color and form easily and is resistant to stains.
Due to special characteristics like textile and colors, some other fabrics can hide stains and be seemed almost always clean.
On the other side, there are some kinds of fabrics that look fancy and glorious, but they easily get stains and their cleaning process is somehow
difficult and needs special care and more time to care.
Mostly these kinds of fabrics are expensive and not suitable for heavy families or crowded communities.
Other fabrics are included natural and synthetic materials at once. It does not mean that all non-natural fabrics, synthetic, are inappropriate or
unacceptable for daily use.
Technically, fabrics are made by crossing their tiny particles, which are called threads, through some other ones.
This way of making cloth is known as weaving. There are a couple of ways of weaving like vertically weaving threads together or horizontally.
By doing these methods, some factors like thickness, softness, etc.
will be changed.
Upholstery Fabric Types
There are countless upholstery fabric types available in the markets all over the world.
Each country has its own factories and each of them produces different kinds of sofa fabrics according to their needs and their customer's tastes.
As we mentioned above about fabrics’ raw materials that may contain natural or synthetic materials, many types of sofa fabric will be formed.
If you are interested in natural fabrics, you need to know which types of fabrics are so.
To name some of the natural fabrics we can list cotton, leather, linen, silk, vinyl, wool, and velvet.
Every single fabric has its own characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages.
As an example, cotton is a popular fabric that is resistant to pilling and fading, while it is not so appropriate in case of fire, dirt, or wrinkling.
Leather, on the other hand, is so tough, sophisticated, and easy to clean, but it is not good for stylish sofas and informal places.
Considering linen, while the fabric is formal, it easily gets dirt and wrinkles, moreover, it is not good for heavy use.
If you are not interested in naturals and you do like synthetics, you may find many brilliant fabrics in terms of use, patterns, wavelengths of
colors, and degrees of comfort.
To mention some of them, we can start with polyester, which is made of chemical and petroleum substances.
It is resistant to fading, and wrinkling, but easily pills when mixed with wool.
Another one is rayon, which its material will wrinkle but it is durable and suitable for families with small children.
The last synthetic fabric I am intended to explain is acetate.
This one is vulnerable to fading, dirt, and wear, but it is resistant to mildew and not acceptable for heavy use.
Upholstery Fabric for Chairs
In my point of view, choosing fabrics for chairs is easier than choosing fabrics for sofas and couches.
Why? Because it is normal for families and colleagues to select their furniture first.
Then they will go for finding table sets based on their furniture colors and styles. It means that if you want to put them in the order of priority,
chair fabric is not the main priority and for sure it is a low priority.
Unless you only want to buy a set of chairs. In this case, you don’t need to think of anything.
But in most cases, it is highly needed to fit the color, style, etc. of your chairs or table sets with your furniture including sofas, couches, and so
on. Because it will give you an interesting harmony between the living room and kitchen.
For selecting the fabric, you need to keep in mind that your chairs will be located in the kitchen, so they will be extremely used and faced with a
lot of dirt-like stains. to sum up, our suggestion to have fabric for tables is that the fabric must be resistant to dirt and stains, while it must be
durable because of heavy use, especially at the time of breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
In this essay, we discuss different uses of upholstery fabric with their pros and cons, the process of making fabrics like horizontal and vertical
weaving, giving information about various types of upholstery fabrics and specific usages of them like chairs and table sets.
By reading this article, we hope you have a perfect choice within perfect matching your house items together.
And if it doesn’t happen, we will be much proud to help and guide you to have the best pick for your house or office. Thank you for taking the
time to read this.