This is a complete resource for furniture upholstering, regardless of your abilities, with easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions explaining all the essential upholstery techniques, from covering buttons to stripping and upholstering entire chairs. Build your skills at your own pace, with advice on the basics such as choosing materials and tools for the job and estimating yardage, as well as more complex upholstering techniques. It features invaluable advice on what to look for when buying second hand furniture, teaching you what's fixable and what's not as well as how to avoid costly mistakes by choosing the right stitches, and techniques and textiles for the job.
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This comprehensive guide to furniture upholstery covers everything from the very basic techniques for beginner's right up to advanced techniques for a professional-looking finish.
It explores how to choose second hand pieces of furniture and flea market bargains and turn them into beautiful pieces of furniture to be proud of. Easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions explain all the essential upholstery techniques, including covering buttons to stripping and upholstering entire chairs.
Includes advice on choosing the right materials and tools for the job as well as estimating yardage and more complex upholstering techniques. There is also information on choosing second hand furniture: recognising what's fixable and how to avoid costly mistakes by choosing the right stitches, techniques and textiles for the job.
Contents include:
Basic tools
Webbings and springs
Materials
Stuffings, fillings and foam
Coverings and linings
Textiles
Trimmings
Techniques
Stripping
Webbing
Springing
Working a sprung edge
Preparing a hessian base
First stuffings
Stitching an edge
Second stuffings
Planning your fabric cuts
Attaching new coverings
Deep buttoning
Vandyking
Shallow buttoning
Making single and double piping
Finishing the chair
Close nailing and adding a nail strip
Types of Furniture
Dining chairs
Stuffed over-seats
Armchairs
Nursing chairs
Wood Frames
Settees
Chaise longues
It explores how to choose second hand pieces of furniture and flea market bargains and turn them into beautiful pieces of furniture to be proud of. Easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions explain all the essential upholstery techniques, including covering buttons to stripping and upholstering entire chairs.
Includes advice on choosing the right materials and tools for the job as well as estimating yardage and more complex upholstering techniques. There is also information on choosing second hand furniture: recognising what's fixable and how to avoid costly mistakes by choosing the right stitches, techniques and textiles for the job.
Contents include:
Basic tools
Webbings and springs
Materials
Stuffings, fillings and foam
Coverings and linings
Textiles
Trimmings
Techniques
Stripping
Webbing
Springing
Working a sprung edge
Preparing a hessian base
First stuffings
Stitching an edge
Second stuffings
Planning your fabric cuts
Attaching new coverings
Deep buttoning
Vandyking
Shallow buttoning
Making single and double piping
Finishing the chair
Close nailing and adding a nail strip
Types of Furniture
Dining chairs
Stuffed over-seats
Armchairs
Nursing chairs
Wood Frames
Settees
Chaise longues
About the Author
Cherry Dobson has been teaching upholstery techniques for over 20 years and holds a distinction in Furniture Advanced Studies from the London Guildhall University. As well as writing, Cherry also teaches and runs both day and residential courses in furniture upholstery.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
By merryb
Format:Paperback
Recently purchased this book after someone in my upholstery class brought it in. What a fantastic book! With the use of very good photographs, it makes even (well, what I think of as) difficult techniques - such as deep buttoning - seem clear and do-able. The projects and fabrics are beautiful. Highly recommend this book for beginners and intermediates alike.
33 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is ideal for anyone new to upholstery or seasoned upholsterers, clear and concise directions and hands on pictures to remind all of us what we may have just learned or learned in the past how to do upholstery. Excellent!
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
By The Chairman
Format:Paperback
What a useful book. I thought I knew how to upholster a chair seat but with the detailed steps in this book it is so much easier to get really good results.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
more technique than project
I teach upholstery and this is the best book on techniques I have seen in a long time. Good beginners reference.
Published 12 days ago by ruth jones
3.0 out of 5 stars
No mention of invisible stitching
I had already done a bit of self-taught re-upholstery & bought this book with the intention of learning how to achieve a more professional finish. Read more
Published 17 days ago by well upholstered me
5.0 out of 5 stars
Upholstery made easy.
This has been extremely helpful as I am doing evening classes and is usefull to look back on and remind you what you should be doing!
Published 24 days ago by Caroline
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great tool
Brought this book to help with a re-upholstery project, great step by step guides, with pictures to follow in easy steps.
Published 1 month ago by Kelly
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lovely book
This book shows lots of different upholstery ideas and well worth the money. I would recommend this book to new upholsterers
Published 2 months ago by amgieloon
4.0 out of 5 stars
would recomend
i have rated this as a four only as i havent had chance to look at it yet, but,quick flip through it looks good
Published 2 months ago by maz
5.0 out of 5 stars
book
wifes xmas present uses it all the time . . . . . . . .. . . . .
Published 2 months ago by steve
4.0 out of 5 stars
GOOD SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE NOVICE
I have set myself the task of re-covering and buttoning the cushion attached to a wooden handmade sofa I bought many years ago. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Musicista
5.0 out of 5 stars
step by step upholstery bible
great book for the novice, my wife wanted to try her hand at basic upholstery and this book gives easy to understand step by step sections.
Published 3 months ago by ade 57
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book
An excellent book for the beginner and those who have done some upholstery - it covers a multitude of techniques that one mayt come across when stripping and reupholstering a piece... Read more
Published 3 months ago by The Nightingale
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