A Beginner's Guide to Upholstery: Revamp your furniture with this step-by-step guide

by Alex Law, Posy Gentles

Overview

Rescue old and beautiful chairs, beds, and footstools with fabulous new fabrics and renovate treasured family heirlooms in perfect period style.

With clear step-by-step instructions throughout, A Beginner's Guide to Upholstery shows you how to take your old or tattered furniture and fabrics and breathe new life into them with natural and sustainable materials. By saving the money you would have spent on someone else doing the work, you can afford to splash out on a really special length of cloth and create stunning pieces of furniture that reflect your own individual style.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782498889
Publisher:	Ryland Peters & Small
Publication date:	09/22/2020
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Alex Law is lead tutor on the Advanced Upholstery Course at the London Metropolitan University. The course is renowned for the nationally recognized awards his students pick up every year. Alex has worked in Europe and Canada, learning new techniques and other traditions. He also runs his own business, upholstering and designing furniture from a barn in the Kent village of Throwley.

Posy Gentles has been a journalist for 20 years. Six years ago, she took upholstery classes with the aim of rescuing a small nursing chair she inherited from her grandmother. Since then, her passion has been such that she has even snapped up armchairs and sofas left on the street for rubbish collection.

Table of Contents

The Basics 6

Tools and materials 8

Knots, stitches, and trims 14

Choosing the fabric and trimmings 20

The Projects 22

1 Dining chair drop-in seat 24

2 Pin-stuffed chair 36

3 Stuff-over pad for inlaid bedroom chair 40

4 Victorian piano stool 52

5 Long footstool 58

6 Sprung dining chair 64

7 Blanket box 72

8 Padded silk headboard 80

9 Gilded chair 86

10 Nursing chair 96

11 Room screen 104

12 Edwardian recliner 110

13 Box cushion 120

14 Day bed 124

15 Tub chair 132

Index and suppliers 144