How to distinguish a leather sofa from an imitation leather sofa

1.Look at the filler: The filler mainly refers to the sponge, which is divided into three types: high elasticity, high elasticity and ultra-soft and medium elasticity according to elasticity.

The specific method is to press the armrests and backrests of the sofa with your hands, if you can clearly feel the existence of the wooden frame, it proves that the filling density of this sofa is not high, and the elasticity is not good enough. Wooden frames that can be easily pressed will also accelerate the wear and tear of the sofa jacket and reduce the life of the sofa. 2.

Look at the material: leather sofa is actually a generic name, pigskin, horse skin, donkey skin, cowhide can be used as sofa raw materials, you must figure out what kind of leather is used. Among them, the cowhide leather is soft, thick, and the quality is the best, and the current sofa is generally made of buffalo leather, which is thicker and thicker, and the price is affordable.

Even better, there are yellow cowhides and green cowhides. The skin texture of horse skin and donkey skin is similar to that of cowhide, but the surface of the skin is green and loose, easy to peel off after a long time, and it is not durable, so the price is cheap. 3.

Look at the wooden frame: see whether the sofa skeleton is strong, which is related to the service life and quality assurance of the sofa. The specific method is to lift one end of the three-person sofa, pay attention to whether the leg of the other end is off the ground when the lifting part is 10cm off the ground, and only the other side is also off the ground, and the inspection is considered to be passed.

4.Hand touch: that is, touch the leather surface with your hands, if there is a smooth, soft, plump, elastic feeling is leather; However, the general artificial synthetic leather surface is astringent, rigid and has poor softness.

5.Smell: All genuine leather has the smell of leather; Artificial leather has a strong pungent plastic smell.

6.Ignition: Tear off a little fiber from the back of real leather and artificial leather, after ignition, where it emits a pungent smell and forms a pimple, it is artificial leather; Anything that smells like hair and doesn't have hard bumps is dermis.

Hope mine is helpful to you.

Ways to identify the quality of a leather sofa:

1. Look at the material and touch it with your hands.

Leather sofa is actually a general name, pigskin, horse skin, donkey skin, cowhide can be used as sofa raw materials, you must figure out what kind of leather is used. Among them, the cowhide leather is soft, thick, and the quality is the best, and the current sofa is generally made of buffalo leather, which is thicker and thicker, and the price is affordable. Even better, there are yellow cowhides and green cowhides.

The skin texture of horse skin and donkey skin is similar to that of cowhide, but the surface of the skin is green and loose, easy to peel off after a long time, and it is not durable, so the price is cheap.

Touching the leather surface with your hand, the leather feels smooth, soft, plump and elastic to the touch. Among the many leathers, cowhide leather is soft, thick and of the highest grade. Other cortical surfaces are flaccid and not durable.

Generally, the artificial synthetic leather surface feels astringent, rigid and has poor softness. When purchasing, consumers can press the leather surface with their hands, if it is genuine leather, it will produce natural pore wrinkles, strong resilience, and will immediately return to the original smooth state. A really comfortable leather sofa, not only with excellent leather, but also with a very good resilience of the interior padding.

Sit down and stand up, and the position where you have sat will not collapse.

2. It can be burned or smelled with your nose.

Genuine leather has a faint natural leather odor, and if it is emitting a pungent odor or leather that has been specially treated to have no smell at all, it may not be genuine leather.

If consumers still want to further judge whether it is genuine leather, they can also tear off a little fiber from the back of the leather, and if it is burnt after ignition, it is genuine leather that does not form a pimple; If it emits a pungent odor and forms pimples, it may be artificial leather.

The leather sofa with good workmanship has a smooth and neat leather surface, less disability, soft and elastic feel, and uniform color. Leather leather color fastness is good, with a damp cloth to rub the leather surface will not have the phenomenon of fading, the leather surface seams are neat, the stitches are even, the stitches are straight, and the sofa surface is smooth, full and without wrinkles. Genuine leather has natural pores and skin lines, and feels plump, soft and elastic to the touch.

Imitation leather sofa, after the finished product with your hands, there is a sticky feeling, and at the same time, the imitation leather sofa has a faster heat transfer and a cool feeling. Another way to distinguish imitation leather sofa is to press by hand, when the surface of the leather sofa is pressed by hand, the wrinkles around it are symmetrical, natural, and the fabric is thick, while the imitation leather sofa is not, its appearance is unnatural and uneven. The imitation leather sofa is extremely poor in hygienic conditions, the air permeability is not strong, and the moisture absorption is not ideal.

Consumers must carefully observe and inspect when buying leather sofas, and do not be deceived by unscrupulous merchants.

After our home decoration is completed, many people like leather sofas, of course, leather sofas have to buy leather, so how to distinguish between leather sofas and imitation leather sofas, teach you 3 points to distinguish the real from the fake. 1.Press, fingers press the leather, there is a clear fine texture around the leather for the leather, on the contrary for imitation leather.

2.To the touch, the leather feels softer than imitation leather, with obvious fibrous feeling. 3.

Poke, there is really no way to distinguish, poke the surface of the leather with a toothpick, and the one that can be poked in is imitation leather, and the leather cannot be poked.