The Upholstery Bible: Complete Step-by-Step Techniques for Professional Results

by Cherry Dobson

Overview

A complete course in upholstering furniture, including tooling up, selecting stuffings and outer textiles, techniques, and cutting plans.
 
The Upholstery Bible is a one-stop 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.
 
The Upholstery Bible 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.
 
"Dobson breaks up the technical stuff with a more inspiring approach . . . If you're starting out, I'd say this would be a brilliant resource to have . . . offers plenty of answers to the most common gotchas." —Vintique Upholstery

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781446381304
Publisher:	David & Charles
Publication date:	05/25/2023
Sold by:	OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	244 MB
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About the Author

Cherry Dobson is an upholstery teacher with over 30 years experience. She lives in Somerset, UK.

Table of Contents

Tools and materials 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 
Index

Preface

The restoration and reupholstery of furniture has recently been enjoying a revival. This new appreciation has been fuelled by an admiration of traditional quality, the wonderful variety of fabrics available and the desire of people of all ages and backgrounds to embark upon projects with pleasing and worthwhile objectives. This guide will help to lead you through the basics of the craft, but also introduce you to some of my personal “tips”, which come from many years’ experience of tackling the “knotty problems” that frequently occur in upholstery. The craft is labour intensive and requires patience and perseverance – but the rewards are wonderful. I hope that this book will be a useful addition to your bookshelf and will encourage you, so that you will both enjoy and take pride in the results.