Plush compression: record pile recovery on one sample

Judge compressed plush on one reference sample, not on a recovery time for the collection. Mark the swatch, describe the pile before it is packed, pack it the way the shipment will actually be packed, then describe the same swatch after you open it. Crush marks, shine and a change in shade belong on that sheet. This store does not publish a number of hours after which every plush cloth looks as it did in the showroom, and it does not say every plush quality can be compressed.

Start in plush fabric and choose the design you are trialling. The article on plush for sofa and lounge use covers where the cloth is used. The vacuum-pack checklist covers the export packing questions. Keep those pages for those jobs. Here you only record what the pile did.

How do you record plush pile before and after compression?

The main photograph is NATA plush. The card above is DEBRA. Both are product photographs, not a packed-and-opened trial. The drawing later in this article is the observation sheet.

Cut or select one sample large enough to see the pile direction. Mark an arrow on the back, in the direction the pile brushes smooth, so the after photo is not a different angle pretending to be damage. Write the design reference and colour on the same card. In daylight or the agreed lamp, note the pile height in words, any crush already present, and whether the colour shifts when you turn the sample. That first note is the baseline. Without it, the opened sample has nothing to be compared with.

Take the after note on that same face. Say whether the pile has stood up, stayed flat, or stood up in patches. Say whether a crease follows the fold. Say whether the shade looks darker because the pile is lying down. Those are observations. They are not grades. If you photograph, use the same arrow, the same distance and the same light. A closer flash on the second photo will invent a fault.

Which pack conditions have to be written on the sheet?

Agree the viewing position before anyone argues about the after note. A swatch hanging on a pin, a swatch face up on a table, and a swatch still creased from the bag are three surfaces. Write which one you used. If the furniture will show the cloth only after it is upholstered, say that the loose swatch is a partial look and that the covered piece still has to be seen. Pile that has stood up on a table can lie down again once it is stretched over foam. That second condition belongs on the sheet if you know it, and it stays off the sheet if you are only looking at the loose piece. Do not describe the loose piece as the finished chair.

The result moves when the conditions move. A sample rolled in tissue for a sales visit is not a seat cushion in a vacuum bag for three weeks. Write the method in the project's words: rolled, folded, vacuum bag, compressed sofa pack, or whatever was actually done. Write how long it stayed that way. Write the temperature only if you measured it. A warm container and a cool showroom are different trials.

Hypothetical sheet, not a Langsum trial: reference PL-EXAMPLE, colour 02, vacuum bag, closed for 48 hours, opened on a flat table, inspected at 30 minutes and again the next morning. That sheet can be discussed. A sheet that says recovered overnight cannot, because nobody can see which cloth, which pack or which morning. If the furniture keeps the cloth under a tight cover after opening, add that. Pile on a free swatch can look different from pile still strapped to a frame.

What can the opened sample actually decide?

It can decide whether this sample, after this pack, looked acceptable for this furniture at the times you wrote down. It cannot decide the next colour, a heavier pile, or a longer voyage. If the pile is still flat at the second inspection, the next step is a question about that design and that pack, not a new universal hour. If it looks unchanged, keep the sheet anyway. The next order needs the conditions, not a story that plush always comes back.

Send the sheet by WhatsApp inquiry with the design reference and the pack you need. Ask whether that design is supplied for that method. Do not ask for a recovery time that covers the collection. Sampling and timing stay confirm-on-inquiry. The reply should say what is known for the named cloth and what still has to be seen on your packed sample.

Are sample arrangements already fixed?

No. Sample arrangements and timing stay confirm-on-inquiry. That limit is already written into the mill-check article, how to vet a mill. This page does not answer the vetting question again. Send the sheet for the selected design and ask which sample step applies to this program.