Belt is one of the most popular accessories. There are many different materials that are used in production. However, the skin remains the most popular raw material. The fact is that it has undeniable advantages along with other materials.
Business Advantages
The described business has certain advantages:
- Good payback, because leather products are always in high demand.
- Ecological safety of raw materials. In addition, it passes air well, which is an indisputable advantage. Leather is a natural raw material.
- Products can be made for men, and for women, and for children.
- Equipment for leather belt production not very expensive or complicated.
In addition, this accessory does not tear for a long time, does not wear out and does not lose a decent appearance.
What raw materials are better to take?
Naturally, leather is used in the manufacturing process, but it is different. For example, the cheapest is pork material. It has a good appearance, but such skin quickly breaks. Therefore, it is best to use it as the inner layer of the belt. The calf material is strong enough and beautiful. In addition, it is still soft and practical.
More expensive are sheep and goat skin. Such material has a beautiful color and velvet is pleasant to the touch. The most expensive raw materials are deer, ostrich, crocodile and other types of exotic skins.
What is necessary?
Now we will understand the question of what kind of equipment for the production of leather belts you will have to buy. Naturally, it is best to purchase a ready-made automated line, the operation of which is monitored. However, you can also pick up individual machines. A complete set provides such devices:
- cutters;
- embossing machine;
- the press;
- apparatus for coloring the entire belt or its parts;
- devices for installing rhinestones, buckles or other decorative elements;
- machines with which the layers of the product are smeared with glue, rounding off the edges;
- sewing machines;
- drying device.
Choosing equipment is necessary depending on its performance, technical condition and quality.
Features of tailoring
Making leather belts is not a complicated process. However, the procedure consists of certain stages, the number of which depends on whether the product will be two-layer or single-layer.
In the second case, the raw material for production is a single piece of leather. Such a product has a sufficiently large mass and width. The belt thickness should not be less than 1.5 mm. Only in this case it will be worn well and for a long time.
Three-layer belts are more popular. In this case, the outer and inner parts of the product are made of leather, and a gasket of another material is inserted between them. It should be noted that the middle layer is optional. If you need it, then you can use faux leather. Although in this case, the belt will be less durable.
To connect the layers, you can use glue or thread, or both at the same time. That is, first the outer, inner part and gasket are glued to each other. After partial drying, the product can be additionally flashed. Thanks to this procedure, the belt will last much longer.
Next, punching holes on the product using a special machine.At the same stage, additional design of the belt with various decorative elements can be made. Then the buckle is fixed - and the finished product is sent to the packaging.
Sewing leather belts is a fairly simple and profitable business.
