What is upholstery pilling and how can we avoid it?

Bobbles are always interesting things, and we want to have them in our lives. However, in one condition, they are disgusting. We do not want to have them on our furniture’s upholstery textiles! The bobbles on furniture textile are called pills. If you do not remove them from your furniture, you will need upholstery repair. In this article we will discuss everything about upholstery pilling and, we will provide a set of ways to avoid seeing those bad bobbles.

What is the reason behind upholstery pilling?

By seeing pills on upholstered furniture, the first thing that comes to mind is “oh, this piece of furniture is very old!”. However, this is not correct. Sometimes your furniture gets older and therefore, some pills appear on it. on the other hand, it has nothing to do with t furniture’s age and appears even on textiles of new furniture.

Some fabrics are potential to getting pills is high. One of these fabrics is velveteen. On the other hand, you will never see even one pill on a leatherette upholstered piece of furniture.

What are the methods of avoiding upholstery pilling?

Now, we know what upholstery pilling and lint balls are. It is time to know the ways to avoid upholstery pilling and even upholstery repair. Or, if upholstery pilling happened, what to with lint balls.

1. Fabric Shavers

There are some devices in the market, which are really like men’s beard shavers. All you need to do is buying them! They use battery power or electricity to function. You need to provide this power source and turn the device on. Then you should move its shaver part on furniture textile. This will completely remove the lint balls from your furniture.

2. Pumice stone

For those who are comfortable with natural methods, we suggest using a pumice stone. Instead of using this stone for your feet, use it to remove pills from your furniture! The removing process is exactly like fabric shavers. You must move pumice stone on your furniture textile to remove lint balls. If you face the pills even after doing the process, you should repeat it until completely removing them.

However, you need to be careful of the furniture and its textile. Because if you push too much effort on it, you will possibly damage the textile.

3. Fabric protectors and stain repellents

Some textiles being used for the upholstery are being made with a protector surface called fabric protectors and stain repellents. These fabrics are a bit tough against upholstery pilling and can make the user more comfortable. By using these fabrics, you can be free of any removal methods until a long time.

There are some products (usually sprays) you can use to make your furniture textiles more resistant to pilling.

4. Fabrics less likely to pill

As mentioned in the previous method, even tough fabrics can have pills after a time. In this respect, you would better think on less vulnerable fabrics against lint balls for your upholstery. Some fabrics have textiles that are greatly twisted and may not easily face pilling. You can choose these fabrics for your upholstery.

As mentioned earlier, all the fabrics can one day face pilling. However, it is better to use a fabric for your upholstery, which is resistant to pilling; otherwise, you should prepare yourself to do an upholstery repair. Fabrics which are made up of some other fabrics are more vulnerable against pilling. These fabrics contain different fabrics with different vulnerabilities against pilling. Usually, the most vulnerable one starts pilling and you need to remove lint balls. No matter that the other parts are not pilled! By choosing these materials for your upholstery, you will need lint balls removal tasks much earlier, or even, you may need an upholstery repair.

We mentioned that pilling is part of a fabric’s life cycle, and you cannot avoid it. however, you can make upholstery pilling happen after a long time using the ways we provided you in this article. You need to consider that all the fabrics used in furniture’s upholstery are vulnerable to pilling and it is totally fine and normal. By using your furniture, they get old, and the process of upholstery pilling starts. You must do something to get rid of them. Furthermore, you should choose the best ways, which are most suitable for your cases.

If you like using natural ways, you should think about pumice stone. Otherwise, you have three other ways mentioned in this paper. As a cheap way, you can buy fabric shavers. At last, if you could not completely remove pills, you can consider upholstery repair done by an expert team. You can count on our team to do your upholstery repair as well as possible.

We provided the easiest methods for getting rid of upholstery pilling. However, you can find even more sophisticated tasks and more professional ones. You will not be able to do these tasks and to do them, you must contact professional people in this field. And here we are for your comfort. You can be in contact with our experts to get the most updated information about removing lint balls and pills from your furniture.