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Leatherette Fabric

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Looks even better than I'd imagined

High quality print on material. Quick production and delivery. Very easy process.

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The printed fabric was perfect!

Great quality fabric and printing! I received it right in time and it was affordable.

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Amazing quality

Bought a few print fabrics, providing my own high res pic. Each one turned out great. Will be ordering more.

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Excellent service

I got exactly what I ordered and it looked even better than I imagined. Customer service and delivery was excellent

leatherette fabric

Leatherette Fabric

Faux Leather Material Printing

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from €38.50

Print your photos or designs on our stunning leatherette fabric. This faux leather material is 100% vegan...

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  • ≥ 3 m2: €65/sq m
  • ≥ 10 m2: €62/sq m 4.6% Discount
  • ≥ 20 m2: €59/sq m 9.2% Discount
  • ≥ 30 m2: €56/sq m 13.8% Discount
  • ≥ 40 m2: €50/sq m 23.1% Discount
  • ≥ 50 m2: €49/sq m 24.6% Discount
  • ≥ 1 m2: €77/sq m
  • ≥ 0.5 m2: €77/sq m

Leatherette Fabric Features

  • White PVC face with poly back 
  • Textured leather effect face 
  • Fire rated and safe to use for upholstery 
  • 700gsm leatherette fabric 
  • 100% vegan
  • Express delivery
Product information

our leatherette fabric is a stunning faux leather material, that has all the natural charm of real leather, but contains no animal product.

The white PVC face has a chic matte finish, with a slight sheen, which is very reminiscent of real leather. However, there are no animal products used in in this material, and it is completely vegan. If you are looking for leatherette material for upholstery, then this is perfect for you. It passes to BS5852: 2006, ignition source 5, when used with a Schedule 3 Flame Retardant Interliner, making it both safe and suitable to use on upholstered fabric. The gorgeous texture of the material does not interrupt the lines of your design, and instead, gives them extra character and charm. With a bright white base tone, colours look simply stunning; bright, vivid, and full of life. If your design contains lots of details and fine lines, then they will be reproduced with exceptionally high quality on the leatherette fabric.
  • Custom size leatherette upholstery fabric
  • No minimum order
  • Solid drape and structure
  • PVC face and ribbed poly back
  • Vegan fabric
  • Weight: 700gsm
  • Roll width: 1.36m
  • Max print: 1.34m
  • Bright white base tone
  • Textured leather effect face
  • Contains no animal products
  • Produces bright, vivid colours
  • HQ quality print
  • Perfect faux leather upholstery material
  • Edge to edge print
  • Printed and cut to order
  • Fire rated
  • Passes to BS5852: 2006, ignition source 5 when used with a Schedule 3 Flame Retardant Interliner

Range of Leatherette Fabrics

Choose from our range of leatherette fabrics

  • Warm Leatherette

    Warm Leatherette

    • Max Print:
      1.27m
    • Weight:
      700gsm
    • Roll Width:
      1.29m

    Ideal for clothing, bag making, phone cases and much more

    Composition:

    85% PVC 15% Polyester

  • Furnishing Leatherette

    Furnishing Leatherette

    • Max Print:
      1.28m
    • Weight:
      600gsm
    • Roll Width:
      1.3m

    Fire rated and rub proof, perfect for furnishing and upholstery

    Composition:

    90% pvc 5% polyester 5% cotton

Care instructions

Surface wipe only. Clean gently by hand with mild soapy damp cloth.

  • Wipe Down
  • No Soak

Please note: This material is susceptible to rub on sharp folds and corners. We do recommend using corner protectors, or creating products with rounded designs to prevent this.
 

How to care for your Leatherette Fabric 

In order to keep your fabric looking and feeling its very best, we recommend wiping it clean only. If you fabric gets a little dirty or dusty, simply wipe clean with a damp cloth and a mild soap solution. 
 

Fun Things to Make Using Leatherette Fabric 

If you need leatherette material for upholstery, then you will love this custom printed fabric. Our faux leather is ideal for light to medium traffic areas, so you can use it to upholster anything from sofas to seat pads, and even scatter cushions. The somewhat solid structure and cool to the touch face makes this a comfortable fabric to sit on. You could even use it to upholster the seats in your car, and add a splash of personal style to your motor.  

This fabric is also rated fire safe, so why not use it for adding cool and unusual details to clothing and furniture? Use it to create sleeves on a soft fabric coat; this will add edge and a high fashion element. Or why not use it to create pockets on your old coat? Small updates like this will help breathe new life into old fashion favourites.  

If you are a bag or accessory maker, then use this stylish fabric for your next project. From wallets and purses to handbags, binders, camera, leatherette bond books, and phone cases, you will love seeing your custom printed leatherette turned into your very own bespoke bag!
 

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Printing on Leatherette Fabric

This beautiful faux leather material is a favourite of ours thanks to its unique qualities and charming characteristics. Our print specialists use a method called dye sublimation which bonds the ink to the fabric, thus creating a long-lasting and vibrant print on the slightly warm white base tone. When you design your own leatherette fabric, you will have the option to choose from four different edge finishes; hemmed with black thread, hemmed with white thread, cut on the line, or left in its natural form. If you prefer a neat edge, please opt for the cut on the line option.
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Print Guidelines

Print Guideline

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    What's the best resolution to print in?

    All of our fabrics are printed at 200dpi. This works for us as it combines a great quality as well as a good file weight. In order to avoid resizing and interpolation, we recommend that you scale your image to 100% at 200dpi. Our design interface works with a traffic light system that acts as a quality marker for your designs. This will show you whether the resolution is too low for printing. When you re-upload your design with a highest resolution, the traffic lights will change colour, showing you're good to go. A message will pop up alongside the traffic lights to let you know if the resolution is too low or if you have a good quality image. 

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    Will my image be scaled to fit?

    Your uploaded design will automatically be scaled to fit the size of fabric you've chosen. You can change the dimensions of your fabric by amending the measurements on the ‘Product Options’ tab, under ‘Print Size’. To see how this fits with the dimensions of your image/design, you can refer to the ‘Images & Text Tools’ tab under 'Quality Information'. Here, you will be able to edit the dimensions of the image.

  • RGB-CMYK Print Guideline Icon

    Should I choose RGB or CMYK?

    We always recommend using an RGB colour space when you upload your images. More specifically, we suggest using the sRGB image profile, to achieve best colour results. This will need to be done in your editing software: choose RGB as the working space, and assign the image profile as sRGB (full name sRGB IEC61966-2.1).

  • Print-Roll Length Fabric Guide Icon

    Is there a maximum length I can print on?

    There is no length limit for most of our fabrics. Our preview design window is set up to display a maximum of 10m to help you visualise the print, but that doesn't mean this is the print limit. If you'd like to order more, you can increase the quantity (x2 for 20m or x4 for 40m for example) and order as much as you'd like. Larger volumes will receive an automatic discount too. While the fabric length is nothing to worry about, each individual fabric will have a maximum width side: these can be found on the fabric's page information or in the design interface. 

  • Borders-Print Guideline Icon

    Should I add white space for borders or cutting onto my design?

    Yes, that will help you when it comes to cutting or framing your printed fabric. We recommend always adding a little extra space for borders into your purchased fabric size. When we print your materials, or send out fabric samples, we typically trim squarely around the fabric, leaving approximately 5mm white space. Cutting neatly on the line has an additional fee.

  • crocking-Print Guideline Icon

    What is crocking?

    Crocking is the term used to describe fading along the creases in a fabric. It typically can occur after constant washing or heavy use of digitally printed natural fabrics. Crocking can be minimised by hand washing your fabrics at a cooler temperature, rather than machine washing. If you want to make sure there's no chance of crocking, we'd suggest you use a poly fabric. 

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    Is it normal for colours to appear lighter on organic fabrics?

    Yes, our organic fabrics don't have an additional coating like non-organic fabrics have, which means it absorbs the inks deep into its fibre and reducing the colour strength slightly (this can be approximately -40%). If you would like a bolder, more vibrant colour for your fabric, we would suggest using a non-organic fabric. 

  • Transfer-Print Guideline Icon

    Can I supply my own fabric for you to print onto?

    Unfortunately not; all of our fabrics have been tested meticulously to ensure we know exactly how to get the best results, and our facilities cater perfectly to them. If you are set on a fabric we don't offer, we can offer custom printed sublimation paper to order which will allow you to heat press your designs onto your own fabrics.

  • Jpeg-Tiff Print Guideline Icon

    Which is a better image format: TIFF or JPEG?

    If your design is simple and less intricate, a JPEG will be absolutely fine. However, if you have created a design with multi-coloured detailing, we would recommend saving your design in a TIFF format. 

  • Shrinkage-Print Guideline Icon

    Will my material shrink during printing?

    Similar to other fabric printing processes, shrinkage can occur. The amount of shrinkage will depend on the fabric, but as a general rule of thumb, please allow for 2-8% shrinkage when working out your measurements. Shrinkage is not an exact science, and the amount of shrinkage will vary from print run to print run. We'd always suggest ordering a little more than you need for your project. 

  • Print-Both Sides Print Guideline Icon

    Can I order double sided printed fabric?

    Many of the fabrics we offer are semi-transparent, so printing on both sides of the fabric is not a service we offer. 

  • Labels-Print Guideline Icon

    Can I order labels in a different fabric? Are the labels cut like normal fabric labels?

    At the moment, all of our fabric labels are printed on satin fabric. For now, we believe this is the best choice, but will potentially introduce other options in the future. All labels are cut to the same label format. If you would like to choose a different fabric and format for your labels, you could always order a sheet of the fabric of your choice to create labels yourself. 

  • Eco friendly Printing

    How do you print your fabrics in an eco-friendly way?

    Our fabrics are printed with water-based inks as environmental consciousness is always front of our minds. Water-based inks include no chemicals or solvents, and our printing process uses heat to fix colours and patterns into place to avoid excess or contaminated water returning into the water system (this is something that can occur through steaming). All printing, fulfilment and production is done in-house, and rather than rolling the fabrics or sending them in a tube, you will receive your material folded up. This amounts to 150 tubes saved a week, as well as much more space on the delivery van for more orders. (For delicate fabrics we make sure to package appropriately).

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    Will there be slight colour differences between my orders?

    Although very rare, there could be a slight colour difference from one print run to another. This is a normal part of the printing process, however we are always working to improve our colour profiles. It is unlikely that the difference in print runs will be hugely different (for example, it's unlikely your orange is suddenly going to be red). The likelihood of colour variations can be intensified fabric to fabric due to materials having different grains and textures; natural fabrics typically have more muted colour tones, while poly alternatives have a bolder hue. This is because the construction of the material is different, and the printing method has to be altered slightly for more delicate, natural textiles.




Sizing For Hemming And Shrinkage

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Our full cut & sew service at Bags of Love can be used to your full advantage. We even offer hemming for your fabrics at a small additional cost. Our hems are created with a one or two cold hem that typically uses around 5 to 20mm of fabric (depending on the thickness of your chosen material). Please bear this in mind when you are ordering your printed fabric with hems: If you would like your finished piece to be 100cm x 100cm, change your dimensions to 101.5cm instead to allow space for your hems (you will also need to include additional for potential shrinkage). The thicker the fabric, the bigger the hem will be. Your printed fabric will be hemmed with either Black or White thread. If you are ordering a lightly woven material or a printed silk, you will find that one hem will be straight, while the other slightly rippled.  The hemming material allowances are as follows and you need to make your print bigger to accommodate the hem:

  • Light Fabrics (20-100gsm): For silks and other light fabrics, we use 6-8mm in the hem (2 fold), so overall width/height will be minus 12-16mm
  • Medium Fabrics (101-200gsm): For medium-weight fabrics that fray, we use 15-20mm in the hem (2 fold) so overall width/height will be minus 35-40mm
  • Stiff/Heavy/No-fray fabrics: we use 15-20mm in the hem (1 fold) so overall width/height will be minus 35-40mm
All of these measurements can vary and should only be seen as an approximation. If you allow for hems and slight shrinkage, it can add a fairly significant amount to your ordered dimensions, so please make sure to consider these things prior to ordering. Depending on how open the weave is, our fabric can shrink anywhere from 2% to 8% with the average being 2.5%.
 

Choose From Three Finishes

We have three finishing options available:
  • As it comes: We simply cut around your image with scissors - leaving a perhaps uneven white border.
  • Hem with thread: We can offer your fabric hemmed with a black or white thread. This will add an additional 1-2 days of production time to your order. Please refer to the dimensions above to gauge how the hemming will affect the size of your print. You will have a choice of an overlock hem or folded hem (one or two fold depending on the fabric) however not all fabrics are suited to both hem types. In the design interface, you will be able to see which options are available to you. If you can only see one hem available, this means that this is the only suitable hem for this material type.
  • Cut on the line: Rather than our 'as it comes' option, we will cut neatly on the edge of your design against the grain of the fabric. If you have a border around your design we will cut around that border. If the design takes up the whole fabric, we will neatly cut around the edge of the image. Cutting against the grain is standard for fabric cutting, and as such lighter materials such as Georgette or Mulmul will have a slight wave in them, and some fraying may occur.
All of our fabrics are carefully hand cut. It is not always possible to maintain a perfectly straight cut for certain fabrics, so please bear this is mind if you see your edge has a slightly uneven look or a little fraying. This is not a flaw in the material. If you have any queries or would like to know about our cutting methods in more detail, please get in touch and we will be more than happy to discuss them with you.

For further information about our fabrics see our FAQs. 

Please note: As everything we provide is handmade to order, you may find a slight variance in the sizes. 

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