Velour

Suede (from the French for velvet) is the name for a textile product with fluffy surface.

A distinction is made in the suede styles to the type of the fabric:

• Fabric with cut loops
• Knitted fabric whose surface by roughening takes on a velvet-like quality
• Velourstuft be separated at the needled loops
• Suede, in which erected by roughening the leather fibers.
• Velor fabric, needle punched nonwoven, in which the fibers have been prepared by a Dilourmaschine

In velor fabric after weaving the loops are cut and are then perpendicular from the tissue. This upstanding pile is longer than the velvet, which is otherwise made ​​equal. When the plush pile is even longer.

In cut pile carpet is tufted, needle-punched fabric, in which the loops are cut open.

The longer the pile ( or pole), the softer the fabric, it threatens the pile permanently kinking. For seat covers it reveals itself as the seat area, in carpets lanes are created when, for example is a long time in the same place a table.

Over time, velor can lose its pile, because this was so cut and so slack in the tissue. You try to prevent this on the back with a fiber integration of synthetic latex dispersions (eg, SBR, EVA or acrylate ).

Suede has been widely used in the 1980s and early 1990s as the seat cover fabric or in passenger cars as interior lining.