Artificial leather and method of manufacturing the same

Artificial leather having a microhardness of 45 to 59, wherein the microhardness is a maximum value measured immediately after a needle is in contact with the artificial leather at an indentation speed of 1 mm/s in a peak hold mode using a microhardness tester, which is, when a load holding time of the needle is 1 second,

• wherein, the artificial leather comprises a back layer, a coating layer, a foam layer, a skin layer and a surface treatment layer sequentially laminated on an upper surface of the back layer, wherein an embossed pattern is formed on upper surfaces of the skin layer and the surface treatment layer,
• wherein the coating layer is formed using a coating solution containing 70 to 130 parts by weight of a plasticizer and 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of a curing agent based on 100 parts by weight of a polyvinyl chloride resin, and the polyvinyl chloride resin is a mixed resin consisting of 60 to 90% by weight of a homopolymer of vinyl chloride and 10 to 40% by weight of a copolymer of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate,
• wherein the foam layer comprises 60 to 120 parts by weight of a plasticizer, 5 to 15 parts by weight of a foaming agent, and 5 to 20 parts by weight of a copolymer of vinyl chloride and vinyl acetate based on 100 parts by weight of a polyvinyl chloride resin, and the polyvinyl chloride resin is a polyvinyl chloride resin having a degree of polymerization of 900 to 1,200,
• wherein the skin layer comprises 60 to 120 parts by weight of a plasticizer and a pigment based on 100 parts by weight of a polyvinyl chloride resin, and the polyvinyl chloride resin is a polyvinyl chloride resin having a degree of polymerization of 1,250 to 3,000, and
• wherein the back layer has a thickness of 0.4 to 0.7 mm, the coating layer formed on the back layer has a thickness of 1 to 10 μm, the foam layer has a thickness of 0.4 to 0.7 mm, the skin layer has a thickness of 100 to 300 μm, and the surface treatment layer has a thickness of 4 to 30 μm.