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The Essential Guide to Upholstery
This book is the definitive guide to successful upholstering. It teaches basic skills and presents twenty-five projects for a range of furniture styles.
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264 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2000
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August 8, 2012
Great pictures and drawings illustrate this manual. It goes a bit fast through the techniques but is a good reference that can be used in conjunction with other books.
Also has a lot of projects that can be dicussed--the furniture all looks new or close to new, so no discussion of getting the chair ready for upholstering...probably not a good one to use on very old or broken antiques, though the techniques will be similar. Does go into the use of horsehair or coir rather than foam and has a lots of stitching rather than using the barbed strips now used for connecting two sides.
Discusses buttoning and tufting--two things every beginner thinks they want to do--and recommends beginners NOT do it. Shows a couple of headboards that looks positively easy, but when it comes to these prpojects at the end, it relies heavily on what she has shown previously, so many steps are not shown and are difficult to imagine in the new setting. She tends to how the finished project in a glorious setting, but neglect the actual work involved to get there, but she does give written instructions which are helpful if you already have a concept of technique.
Love the rug-covered ottoman-table-stool. A daring idea, but for a beautiful but threadbare antique rug, might be just the ticket. This book get one excited to begin and it looks bright and clean and new. Anyone who does upholstery, however, knows what a dirty, messy job it can be so it's a little deceptive that way. But it gets the juices flowing. One wants to go ceate something beautiful immediately.
Also has a lot of projects that can be dicussed--the furniture all looks new or close to new, so no discussion of getting the chair ready for upholstering...probably not a good one to use on very old or broken antiques, though the techniques will be similar. Does go into the use of horsehair or coir rather than foam and has a lots of stitching rather than using the barbed strips now used for connecting two sides.
Discusses buttoning and tufting--two things every beginner thinks they want to do--and recommends beginners NOT do it. Shows a couple of headboards that looks positively easy, but when it comes to these prpojects at the end, it relies heavily on what she has shown previously, so many steps are not shown and are difficult to imagine in the new setting. She tends to how the finished project in a glorious setting, but neglect the actual work involved to get there, but she does give written instructions which are helpful if you already have a concept of technique.
Love the rug-covered ottoman-table-stool. A daring idea, but for a beautiful but threadbare antique rug, might be just the ticket. This book get one excited to begin and it looks bright and clean and new. Anyone who does upholstery, however, knows what a dirty, messy job it can be so it's a little deceptive that way. But it gets the juices flowing. One wants to go ceate something beautiful immediately.
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