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       COMPLETE STEP - BY - STEP

      Upholstery

Illustration

       COMPLETE STEP - BY - STEP

      Upholstery

       DAVID SOWLE and RUTH DYE

Illustration

      Published in 2005 by

      New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd

      London · Cape Town · Sydney · Auckland

      Garfield House, 86–88 Edgware Road

      London, W2 2EA

      United Kingdom

       www.newhollandpublishers.com

      80 McKenzie Street, Cape Town 8001

      South Africa

      14 Aquatic Drive, Frenchs Forest, NSW 2086

      Australia

      218 Lake Road, Northcote, Auckland

      New Zealand

      Copyright © 2005 text: David Sowle and Ruth Dye

      Copyright © 2005 photographs: New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd

      Copyright © 2005 New Holland Publishers (UK) Ltd

      David Sowle and Ruth Dye have asserted their moral right to be identified as the authors of this work.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers and copyright holders.

      Print ISBN: 978-1-8433-0929-1

      eISBN: 978-1-6076-5306-6.

      Senior Editor: Clare Hubbard

      Editorial Direction: Rosemary Wilkinson

      Step-by-step photographs: David Sowle

      Finished projects and close-ups: Shona Wood

      Design: Peter Crump

      Illustrations: Stephen Dew

      Location: pp 51, 75, 83, 91, 117, 141 www.lightlocations.co.uk

      Location: pp 35, 43, 59, 67, 101, 109, 149 www.1st-option.net

      Production: Ben Byram-Wigfield

      Reproduction by Modern Age Repro House Ltd, Hong Kong

      Note

      The author and publishers have made every effort to ensure that all instructions given in this book are safe and accurate, but they cannot accept liability for any resulting injury or loss or damage to either property or person, whether direct or consequential and howsoever arising.

      Thanks to GP & J Baker for the upholstery fabric and to Andrew Muirhead & Son for the leather used in the projects.

Illustration

       INTRODUCTION

       GETTING STARTED

       BASIC UPHOLSTERY TECHNIQUES

       BASIC SKILL

       1 Drop-in seat

       2 Pin-cushion seat

       3 Overstuffed seat

       4 Overstuffed chair with springs

       5 Deep-buttoned stool

       6 Caning

       7 Box cushion

       8 Re-covering upholstery

       APPLYING BASIC SKILLS

       9 Art Deco armchair

       10 Classic armchair

       11 Wing chair

       12 Tub chair

       13 Chaise longue

       14 Drop-arm sofa

       15 Buttoned leather chesterfield

       Glossary

       Suppliers

      Introduction

      If you want to learn upholstery all you need is a book, some basic tools and a chair. That’s how we began, and this is the book we wish we’d had.

      Our upholstery business started when Ruth decided she wanted to have a go at upholstering a chair. I went over the road to a friend who had an antiques shop and asked if Ruth could have a chair, and we hunted around local junk shops for secondhand tools. Our friend gave me an old oak carver and a Victorian nursing chair from the basement and said Ruth could do what she liked with them. It seemed to take days just to strip them, but finally they were both clean of their old upholstery. Ruth asked another friend, who made cushions and curtains, to order some materials from her supplier and slowly, by following the instructions in an old upholstery book and plenty of trial and error, Ruth reupholstered the two chairs. Neither could be described as fine examples, but, our friend was more than happy to put them in his shop and when they sold – as they both did – he split the proceeds with us.

      From then on he supplied as much upholstery work as Ruth could handle. Small things at first, but many and varied – boxes, piano stools, fire surrounds with cushion tops – anything bought cheap at auction and in need of upholstery. If the finished article sold in


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