To obtain a synthetic leather almost free from fraying, excellent in durability and tear strength, having good touch feeling and excellent processability along design and provide an efficient method for producing the synthetic leather having excellent touch feeling, processability and durability.

This synthetic leather 10 is obtained by successively laminating an urethane-based adhesive layer 14 and a polyurethane epidermis layer 12 onto the surface of a base fabric 18 and the base fabric 18 is hosiery having napping 20 on the surface and 20-99% of length of the napped fiber 20 exists in the adhesive layer 14. The hosiery constituting the base fabric 18 is a hosiery obtained by passing through a spun yarn as weft in course direction of hosiery and applying specific knit to the hosiery and preferably has 60-100% elongation in vertical and horizontal directions.