Furniture fabrics:

• Furniture industry can be segmented as
• Home furniture,
• Office furniture and
• Contract furniture (majorly the hospitality segment).
• Fabrics are mainly used in furniture made for seating purposes.
• Foam rubber, down, and kapok, hair, fiber, flock, are utilized for stuffing in modern upholstery where plastics, leather and synthetic leather, woven fabrics, serve as coverings.

Product Characteristics:

• Woven fabrics including flock and velvet are the most widely used furnishing fabrics in furniture.
• Both plain and printed flock fabrics with an average GSM of 145 are used for the purpose.
• Jacquard and Shanil have also gained customer preference as these fabrics are dust resistant.
• Artificial leather is another very widely used material for furniture.
• The popular characteristics of artificial leather (PVC/PU Coated fabric) are given in the following table:

Raw Material:

• Polyester, viscose, cotton, acrylic, polyester, polyester cotton, nylon (polyamide 6/6,6) etc. are used for making flock fabrics of various kinds.

Technology used:

• The machinery required to produce the furniture fabric are
• Weaving
• Knitting
• The machinery required for furnishing fabrics includes
• Coating
• Mixers,
• Printing machines,
• Embossing machines, etc.