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Bean bags are a fun, comfortable alternative to spare chairs, whether in the living room, kid&#;s bedrooms, or the media room. Bean bags are often covered in materials like Microsuede or Microfiber, but what&#;s the difference between the two? Are faux suede beanbags the right choice for a family home, or is a different fabric a better choice?
What is Microsuede?
Microsuede is a type of Microfiber. Microsuede is a humanmade polyester fabric, made up of millions of very fine microfibres. Faux suede has the same feel as genuine suede leather but has less of the problems associated with the real thing. Microsuede is cheaper than genuine suede and is more resistant to wear and stains. It also comes in lots of different colours and can be printed in various patterns.
What is Microfiber?
Microfiber is a term used to describe fabrics with strains less than one denier (a denier is a unit used to measure the linear mass density of fibres). Most humanmade microfibers are made from nylon, polyester, or a combination of both. These fine threads produce lightweight fabrics, that are easy to clean, and are resistant to wrinkles and stains, but still, have a luxurious appearance. They&#;re popular in clothing, furnishings and cleaning products.
How is Microfiber used?
Microfibers are common for covering furniture, thanks to how easy they are to get clean. But they can also be used in lots of other ways. Microfiber is ideal for making lightweight and breathable clothing. It is popular with athletes, thanks to the fabric's ability to wick moisture away from the body. It can also be used to make cleaning products like cloths and mops. Microfibers are electrically charged, so they can easily trap dust and dirt into the fibres of the cloth. This makes cleaning quick and easy without the need for sprays to get rid of dust. They can also be used to clean grease and fat stains.
What are the features of Microsuede?
Microsuede is a popular fabric in home furnishings for a lot of reasons. Microsuede and other microfibers have lots of helpful features, including:
Great strength, despite the superfine filaments.
Improved breathability
Sharper contrast in prints
Comfortable fibres
Durability
Easy to care for
Water-resistant
Drapes well
Lightweight
Stain-resistant
Any fabrics in your home, especially if you have children or pets, should be durable and easy to maintain. Nobody wants to spend ages trying to clean dirt off a bean bag when they could be relaxing in it instead. Thanks to the strength of the fabric, the bean bag will stand up well to being used every day, even by children who might be a little rough with it. The fabric is comfortable, making the bean bag soft to sit on and comfortable against your skin. The resistance to stains and water is ideal for family life, as the bean bag will survive spilt drinks, dropped food and other messes that tend to follow young children.
How do you clean faux suede bean bags?
Faux suede is easy to clean, which is one of its big advantages. Remember that while it is stain-resistant, Microsuede is not entirely stain-proof, so it will need an occasional clean to keep it looking its best. Always read the label carefully before starting to clean. Some faux suedes are water safe, whereas others must only be cleaned with solvents or dry vacuuming. Check which yours is, and follow this guide to properly and safely clean your bean bag without damaging the faux suede. For most bean bags, a quick vacuum is all you need to get rid of dust and crumbs.
Are faux suede bean bags good for allergies?
Dust allergies and asthma are very common, and the fabrics you use in your home can help to manage these conditions. Dust doesn&#;t settle in Microfiber in the same way that it would in a bean bag covered in another cloth. The fine fibres in microsuede stop dust from accumulating too much. Any dirt that does settle can be easily removed with a once-over with the vacuum cleaner. If you or someone in the house has a dust allergy, then faux suede bean bags are a great choice to help them manage the problem.
Are there any downsides to Microfiber?
Microfiber is popular for cleaning cloths and mops as it can trap dust. This means that any lint, loose threads, pet fur, or hairs will stick to your bean bag more than they would on some other fabrics. Luckily, Microfiber is very easy to clean, so this isn&#;t too much of a problem to deal with. However, if you have pets, you may want to keep them away from your bean bag to avoid having to clean pet hair off of it every other day. A light colour microfiber bean bag can also be marked by dark coloured clothing or over-dyed jeans, so be careful with the colour of the bean bag that you choose. A darker shade might be better for a family home.
What alternatives are there for bean bag fabric?
Faux suede bean bags are a great choice, but they&#;re not for everyone or all homes. There are lots of other options that might suit you and your lifestyle better. Vinyl is one of the most common coverings for bean bags, as it is very durable. However, in hot weather, vinyl can get very hot and sticky, which isn&#;t very pleasant to sit on. Vinyl is also considered to be carcinogenic. You could buy a cotton bean bag. These are better for hot climates, as the cotton is breathable and very comfortable. However, cotton isn&#;t very resistant to staining, so it is a bad choice for houses with pets, children, or adults prone to spilling.
Polyester and nylon are very popular fabrics for bean bags, as they are very easy to clean. These fabrics are often treated with a special coating that makes them resistant to fading and mould, and repellant to water.
A leather bean bag is another good option. These look classy and are very durable compared to almost all other fabrics. However, real leather is not cheap, so treating yourself to a leather bean bag may be a splurge that is outside of your budget. If you can afford it though, a leather bean bag can be a style statement that lasts for a long time. The right fabric choice depends on where and how you&#;re going to use the bean bag. If the bean bag is intended to be an accent piece in your bedroom or a spare chair in the lounge, then it&#;s likely that it won&#;t be under as much wear and tear as it might be in other parts of the house. This means you can choose a pretty, but not as tough fabric, so you get a wider choice of fabric in order to match your bean bag to the decor in the rest of your bedroom. If the bean bag is going to be used in a child&#;s bedroom, or as a chair for the kids in the living room, then you want something that is easy to clean and hard-wearing, like durable polyester or vinyl. Choose a bean bag in a fun colour or a pattern that children will enjoy. If your bean bag is going to be used as a gaming chair, then you want a sturdy bean bag with plenty of filling so you can use it so sit a little more upright for a comfortable gaming position. A sturdy fabric like leather or faux suede is a good choice. If you&#;re going to use the bean bag for reading or sitting in front of the TV, then you&#;ll want something soft and comfortable to sit on.
Which faux suede bean bag should I buy?
One of our most popular bean bags is our Cocoon Faux Suede Bean Bag. This bean bag is soft, fun, and incredibly comfortable to relax on. The Cocoon Bean Bag is made in a teardrop shape, which is very comfortable to sit on, while the soft faux suede is ideal for snuggling up into when the weather is cold. This bean bag is also very hard-wearing and easy to care for properly. Our Cocoon faux suede bean bags come in a range of colours so you can match it to your decor. Currently, you can buy one in pastel pink, sand, caramel, charcoal, and orange. These bean bags are both stylish and functional. They have a sturdy inner lining, which makes the bean bag easy to wash and keep clean. The faux suede is easy to spot clean when needed, but the inner liner can also be removed for machine washing, hand washing, or dry cleaning if a deeper clean is required. The Cocoon bean bag has a YKK safety zip, which you can trust as safe and easy to use for years to come. This bean bag can also be customised for business use, as well as bought for use indoors in the home.
Can I buy custom microfiber bean bags for my business?
We can create personalised bean bags for your business, which your guests, customers, or clients are sure to love. Bean bags are a great, budget-friendly choice for outdoor event seating. You can use them at outdoor cinemas or concerts. They are a convenient addition at a trade show booth. Bean bags are comfy, light and easy to transport. They add a sense of fun and colour to an event. We can print your company name, logo, or slogan onto many of our bean bag designs. This makes them a great choice for your own event or as part of an event sponsorship package. We&#;ve created branded bean bags for companies including Uber, Cadbury, Moet & Chandon, Jacobs Creek, Melbourne Music Week, and many more.
Why buy from Bean Bags R Us?
Bean Bags R Us uses the latest trends and the most fashionable colours. We constantly source new fabrics. And we create the most comfortable shapes. Our modern design choices are used to create a range of bean bags that are versatile and easy to incorporate into your home. Bean bags are easy to add, flexible, extra seating option in the home. Use them to add an element of fun to your decor. Or give the kids some seating they&#;ll enjoy in their bedrooms. Or for relaxing in while watching TV or playing games. When you buy from Bean Bags R Us, you know you&#;re getting a quality product, with a warranty of one year. All our bean bags are child-safe, with safe fillings and child-proof zips, and all come with clear cleaning instructions to keep your bean bag looking good for a long time.
We ship worldwide, so you can get a great quality bean bag from us, wherever you are in the world. For Australian deliveries, we ship through DHL, Australia Post and Startrack Express. International deliveries are made through DHL Express. Whatever you choose, bean bags are a versatile, fun, and comfortable seating choice in the home or for corporate events. Microsuede and other forms of Microfiber are great choices for bean bag chairs, thanks to its durability, ease of cleaning, comfort, and style. Comfortable faux suede bean bags are a great option for lots of uses in the home. Shop online now to see our full range or call us on 888 911 to talk to our team about our stock.
Synthetic microsuede aka faux suede is a fun way to add texture and that natural suede look at a more affordable price. Given the fuzzy nature of faux suede, it may seem intimidating at first but let&#;s take a look at how to work with suede and what it can do.
Link cosplay made with chocolate brown faux suede with painted monster spot detailsSkill level: intermediate
Cost: moderate
For the most part, you&#;ll find this listed as an upholstery fabric! You can buy it by the yard wholesale for around $10-15 a yard.
Common supplies for working with this fabric:
Let&#;s talk faux suede!
Time to start with the basics, fabric statistics!
Microsuede is a pile fabric. This means that if you run your hand over the right side of the fabric, it feels fuzzy like a bunch of little hairs on the fabric. And it has those! Just synthetic fibers instead of actual hair. It&#;s similar to faux fur, velvet, and even your carpet. Little hairs! This gives it a naturally fuzzy look and makes it particularly soft. The wrong side of microsuede fabric is much more coarse and does not have a pile.
Folding suede into a strip for buckles. The right side of microsuede has a fuzzy look while the wrong side has a coarser, woven lookMicrosuede tends to lean towards the heavier side of medium-weight fabrics. It has some weight to it and will feel a little heavy when picking up a few yards of it. It has a decent amount of body to it so you can feasibly use this for jackets and coats. This fabric is synthetic, so it doesn&#;t really breathe, so always make sure to wear wicking clothing and take breaks as needed.
Given the stiffness, this probably isn&#;t good for pants since it probably will chafe when you wear it and inevitably sweat. You could use it for chaps though. Just make sure to stay cool, much like with jackets and coats.
Microsuede can be a bit of a touchy fabric due to its pile. It doesn&#;t iron well so you&#;ll want to hang up your finished garments if possible or store them flat in a box. When packing into a suitcase, try to keep the suede flat and unwrinkled. I fly with mine and as long as I pack it flat enough, it generally ends up fine at the other end.
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Cleaning is also touchy due to the pile. You can&#;t just throw it into the washer and expect it to come out fine. Instead, spot cleaning works best. Rubbing alcohol or a touch of vodka is amazing for pulling out spots acquired at the con. You can also dilute vinegar with water, 1:1, though the vinegar smell will stick to the fabric.
Rub against the pile, from bottom to top, to release any stains then dry flat. Be gentle when rubbing since you don&#;t want to crush the pile.
Let&#;s talk about how to sew microsuede:
Microsuede is a medium-weight fabric, as heavy as it feels, and is still woven. This means that you can sew it on a regular sewing machine with a heavy-duty needle. You need the heavier needle to be able to pierce through the thickness of the material without causing your needle to bend or get angry and not punch through the fabric.
Most machines will get upset at you if you sew a lot of suede layers together, and may refuse to punch through the fabric. If you have a heavy-duty machine, you can turn the wheel and carefully punch through the more layered sections, but I do not recommend that with a regular machine.
Probably due to the pile of the fabric, suede sometimes does not like to move along the feed dogs of your machine and seemingly gets stuck. This is generally due to the foot getting stuck to the top of the fabric. To help prevent this, you either need one of a few non-stick feet that will glide across the top of the fabric or a walking foot. My preference is a walking foot.
Sewing fur to suede using a leather needle and a walking footThe walking foot for modern home machines is a bulbous sort of little foot that has a little arm that attaches to your needle screw. This little arm makes the feeder dogs on the walking foot move up and down and this in turn feeds the fabric through the machine evenly.
Now while sewing, you might need to hold that fabric in place. You can use clips or you can use straight pins. I find that very sharp quilting pins work best with microsuede, but really any sharp pin will do.
edge of a suede bootThe pins need to be sharp to pierce through the thick fibers. Dull pins will simply refuse to go through and you don&#;t want to damage your fabric by trying to force it. Fortunately with the sharp pins, even though you&#;re punching through thicker fibers, the pin holes aren&#;t even noticeable so pin away.
You&#;ll likely need pins for flattening seams and sewing them down since clips generally cannot reach them. Microsuede is stiff and cannot be reliably ironed, so to make flat seams, you&#;ll want to sew the seam allowance down. Make sure the seams are in the correct position to do this as picking seams in suede can be challenging due to the pile.
Seam pinned down and sewn with a straight stitchWhen sewing your seams, you can sew the seam allowance to only one side of the seam like the image above, or open the seam and sew up both sides for a double-stitched look.
Seam opened and sewn on both sides of the seam line on the back of a bootYou can finish microsuede a few ways, though the easiest is to hem it, fold the edges over, and sew it down as you would with cotton or similar fabrics. Microsuede does fray like crazy so you want to tuck that seam inside and not leave it raw.
Folded hem sewn down with the edges beginning to fray. The suede is sewn over duck canvasYou can finish your suede edges in a number of other ways including wrapping the raw edges in bias tape or ribbons. Folded seams like double-fold or French seams may be too bulky, and the suede may be too stiff to run through your serger. I haven&#;t tried, but I&#;m sure my serger would cry at me.
In addition to edge finishes, you can line suede with cotton or other soft material, sewing the outer edge down much like you would a seam mentioned above. This keeps the two layers from puckering and spreading apart.
Microsuede is a medium-weight fabric so you don&#;t need any crazy supplies or methods to work with it. You will want your scissors or rotary cutter to be sharp else it&#;ll just gum at the fibers. Otherwise, you can use what you probably already have for other fabrics.
Microsuede errs on the heavier side of medium-weight fabrics. For the most part, it handles pattern laying and cutting much like any other medium-weight fabric. Folds do not stay particularly flat, but you can pin them near the edge to get them to lay a little flatter.
If you are making your own patterns, you can flip the fabric wrong-side out and make any markings you need with a pen or chalk. Don&#;t use a marker as that bleeds through the fabric.
As mentioned in the sewing section, you can use pins normally with microsuede. The pinholes are nearly invisible so you don&#;t have to worry about pinning only in the seam allowances to avoid pinholes
Microsuede doesn&#;t take to heat well, especially any sort of pressed heat. Its heat problems all stem from the pile. The heat flattens the fabric&#;s pile and causes the fibers to go flat against the backing. The fabric loses fuzzy appearance and there&#;s not exactly a good way to put it back, even with more steaming or washing. So it&#;s best to avoid pressed heat if possible.
I have seen articles mentioning how to steam a microsuede coat but steam also has the same problem as other forms of heat. It can press the pile flat. If you absolutely must iron out creases and have a steamer, test on a swatch to see how it reacts to the heat before using it on your cosplay. You&#;ll want to apply heat to the back of the fabric and not the pile directly.
A lot of microsuede&#;s problem stems from the pile. Painting may push down that pile and create a flat section of your fabric. However, that doesn&#;t mean you can&#;t paint anyway.
You can paint using fabric paint or acrylics thinned with fabric medium. The painting process does push the pile down, but with the details of the paint, you can generally get away with it. You&#;ll want to avoid painting large sections so it&#;s not as noticeable, but for smaller sections, you can absolutely do it.
Suede arm guard painted with dark brown monster cheetah spotsIf you want a whole tutorial on how to paint microsuede, check out Painting faux suede with acrylics.
For dyeing the fabric, I have yet to find a definitive answer. There are suede dyes that you can paint on, and you might be able to use synthetic disperse dye though the heat required for synthetic dye can be a problem. It is honestly better to find a close enough fabric predyed, and with so many options, there&#;s a good chance you can find something that works!
Microsuede really takes well to embellishments. This can be anything from twine and beads to large pieces of armor and random bones.
You can sew embellishments onto microsuede pretty easily with a sharp hand needle. If you&#;re using multiple layers of suede, you may need a thimble to protect your fingers when pushing the needle through the fabric.
Sewing suede cord onto suede using a whip stitch to make a wrapped lookYou can also sew beads and bobbles onto suede much the same weight, though be mindful of heavier stones as they can cause fabric to sag if it&#;s not reinforced with some kind of backing.
Now despite microsuede&#;s heat issues, it can take to heat in terms of glue relatively well. You can glue larger embellishments such as paper mache armor to the suede to secure it. When gluing, make sure to use a large helping of glue behind the embellishment and let it fully cool before moving it. If you move it while the glue is still hot, it will bond only to the pile and pop off later.
Gluing a large paper mache armor piece to suede with a healthy helping of glueFeasibly you could also use other types of heat and glue such as hotfixing rhinestones or using super glue to attach accents (please use adequate ventilation with super glue), so if you need some glitter rhinestone Barbie boots, go forth and be your shiny Barbie self. Make sure to always test on a fabric scrap before applying anything to your final cosplay!
At some point, you&#;ll want to close your suede. And for the most part, microsuede takes pretty well to most closures. Heavier closures may require reinforcement.
As suede can err toward the heavier side, you&#;ll want to use fasteners that can handle the weight. Lightweight buckles are one of my favorites and I use them quite a bit in my boots and gauntlets.
Suede leg guard with multiple slider buckle closuresWith smaller fasteners like snaps and hooks and eyes, you&#;ll want to use larger ones or heavier-duty ones as the weight of the fabric could pull them open. If you&#;re making bags or pouches, magnetic snaps and clasps are also an option to keep your bag closed.
Original Link cosplay with suede buckle boots and lace-up gauntletsI hope you enjoyed this rundown of working with synthetic microsuede. It&#;s a fun material to add a more natural texture to your cosplays. It&#;s a great material for everything from bags to boots to a full barbarian or adventurer look. It comes in so many colors, you&#;re sure to find the one you need for your next project.
Show me how you use microsuede in your next project. @ me on social media so I can admire your work!
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