Sueded Padding
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Benchmark is pleased to offer this wonderful option in padding material. Our acrylic adhesive-backed sueded padding is thinner and smoother than felt. It has a lovely "hand" and cuts very cleanly. So useful!
Available in seven colors
> Single pack gives you three of a single color.
> Multi-color pack gives you one of each color
Each sheet is a nominal 8-1/2" x 12"
What's with the change in the Sueded Poly?
It's no doubt become apparent to all our mountmaker colleagues that we have gradually been replacing our original sueded poly padding with a new material. We’ve had conversations about the how-and-why with many of you individually.
The original material was manufactured in Europe, but a few years ago the manufacturer discontinued making it. The importer kindly alerted us to this change, which allowed us the opportunity to claim as much of the suede as was available. We’ve been providing from that yardage in the time since.
Knowing that we had to eventually find a replacement before we reached the end of the original stock, we considered several options before selecting the new line of material that you now see in some of the colors. We chose seven “replacement” colors, to be as close to the original seven colors as possible. These seven were submitted to Oddy testing and they all passed.
As we come to the end of a color in the original material, we’ve been feeding in the new material. That changeover has so far happened to four colors. We gave the new material new names : Carbon, Fog, Chestnut and --- White. (OK - White then is White now..)
We’ve continued to call all these items by the original “Sueded Polyethylene” name even though the new material is, as it turns out, largely nylon. We were a bit stumped as to how to handle this two-horse team. We thought it would be less confusing to keep the one original name rather than offering two similar paddings with two different names, with colors and content shifting over time as we shifted to the new material. Now, as more than half of the colors offered are of the new material, it’s time to make a shift in the name.
It's all “Sueded Padding” from here on in.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please feel free to be in touch.
Benchmark is pleased to offer this wonderful option in padding material. Our acrylic adhesive-backed sueded padding is thinner and smoother than felt. It has a lovely "hand" and cuts very cleanly. So useful!
Available in seven colors
> Single pack gives you three of a single color.
> Multi-color pack gives you one of each color
Each sheet is a nominal 8-1/2" x 12"
What's with the change in the Sueded Poly?
It's no doubt become apparent to all our mountmaker colleagues that we have gradually been replacing our original sueded poly padding with a new material. We’ve had conversations about the how-and-why with many of you individually.
The original material was manufactured in Europe, but a few years ago the manufacturer discontinued making it. The importer kindly alerted us to this change, which allowed us the opportunity to claim as much of the suede as was available. We’ve been providing from that yardage in the time since.
Knowing that we had to eventually find a replacement before we reached the end of the original stock, we considered several options before selecting the new line of material that you now see in some of the colors. We chose seven “replacement” colors, to be as close to the original seven colors as possible. These seven were submitted to Oddy testing and they all passed.
As we come to the end of a color in the original material, we’ve been feeding in the new material. That changeover has so far happened to four colors. We gave the new material new names : Carbon, Fog, Chestnut and --- White. (OK - White then is White now..)
We’ve continued to call all these items by the original “Sueded Polyethylene” name even though the new material is, as it turns out, largely nylon. We were a bit stumped as to how to handle this two-horse team. We thought it would be less confusing to keep the one original name rather than offering two similar paddings with two different names, with colors and content shifting over time as we shifted to the new material. Now, as more than half of the colors offered are of the new material, it’s time to make a shift in the name.
It's all “Sueded Padding” from here on in.
If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please feel free to be in touch.