Sofa knowledge and care

Sofa knowledge and care
by Rick Lee
plug it1) Is leather cold in the summer and hot in the winter? Leather conforms to its environment. It depends on the temperature of a room, or your body and will maintain a consistent temperature that will feel good to your skin.
2) Why there has colors difference for a same sofa? Genuine leather is natural leather, color variations can occur within the same hide because there is no finish applied to a high quality leather, plus the different density of hide fiber. This is an indication of the authenticity of the leather, and should not be considered a defect. Actually, it should be treated as a "mark" of true, high quality leather

3) Why the price is big difference for different grade leather? The main determining factor of a grade of leather is the origin of the raw hide. Generally speaking, hides from the Southern Hemisphere are more abundant than Northern Hemisphere, but Northern Hemisphere is more supple, less scars and natural characteristic. More high grade leather, more high requirement for the quality of hide, and processing technics is more difficult. That is why the price is big difference for different grade leather.

4) Why can the price of leather furniture vary so much? As grades of leather increase, the cost of the final product also increases. However, there are many other factors that affect pricing including: dimension, style, processing craftwork etc…

5) Why is my leather stretching after only a couple of years? Leather has elasticity and forms according to the amount of use an area gets. Just as new shoes need some breaking in, so does your leather sofa.

6) Why there are scars, difference in veiling, wrinkles on surface of leather? Leather is unique ,each hide has its own story. During the growth of animal, there have marks and scars of insect bites, wrinkle of fat piled, veiling caused by difference in fiber and consistence of animal, what is called “dust” which appeared after using of leather are all natural mark of leather. So when you observe a leather furniture carefully, you can see scars, fiber consistence, insect bites, stretch, color difference and other natural marks on surface.

7) Top grain: top grain portion is the top portion of the hide. It is generally used in the areas that receive more wear since the fiber of top grain is more compact than that of split grain.

8) Split:All leather hides have to be split into two hides because a hide is too thick to upholster or use in any type of manufacturing. The bottom hide is known as split leather. This hide can be sanded down (corrected) and embossed with a consistent graining pattern to be used on the outside back and sides of sofa for a slight cost savings. A split leather is still 100% leather, and has all the same finishing treatments as the top grain portion.

9) Full grain: Is top grain leather that uses the grain of the hide. No correction is made to the grain.

Use and maintenance of sofa ? 1) Sofa should be placed on where are cool and ventilation, avoid direct sunlight, keep away from heater, as well as avoid to be place on too moist site, thus avoid the leather to be rotten or go moldy. 2) Sofa can not be enforced to move. Avoid kids to play on it or sit on armrest or not permit to pile weighty stuff, otherwise, the suspension construction will be damaged. 3) Don't apply a sharp or knife on surface, avoid to hurt leather. Don't drop off oil or acidic substance on sofa, avoid to erode surface of leather, and don't be dirtied by ball pen or other color pens. 4) Life of superior genuine leather is affected by environment such as high temperature, much dust etc. it should be simply maintained timely.Equably, rapidly rub the dust and stain on surface by using a clean and soft cotton cloth soaked in a water and neutral cleanser solution.Don't clean up by using more oleaginous cleanser.Twice or three times, a thorough clean up is best every year. 5) Pay attention to: (1) Cloth is clean and soft; (2) use mild cleanser; (3) don't allow to rub vigorously, avoiding to affect appearance impression and color of sofa. (4) don't dry up sofa by a blower, leave it absorb automatically. (5) quite a few genuine leather be processed by using unique craftwork, such as aniline-dyed, caused the cloth be colored slightly. It is normal, can not affect the normal life and color effect.