Here you will find many upholstery tutorials techniques and tips from beginner to professional level. I hope these upholstery ressources will be usefull for you. Comment under tutorials if you have any question so I will help you if I can.
Stripping
Stripping is one of the very first step of every upholstery project... I'm a huge fan of antiques so I've stripped off many, many seats in my life and I…
Security Tips for stripping
The simplest and more important strripping security tip I could give is this one: NEVER LET YOUR HAND IN FRONT ANY TOOLS WHILE STRIPPING! That was close ... This happened…
Just learn nailing with old nails
This tips is even older than these nails: you can simple use old nails to learn how to nail properly.
How to cover this little chair easily
This kind of covering is quite easy if you want to try upholstery ! It's also a technique you can apply on other parts of a chair of course !…
How to upholster this little chair easily
This is a pretty simple tutorial for beginner this one. So here I'll show you how to upholster this little chair easily with foam. A (very) usefull technique This is…
How to add an extra layer on a old back (foam)
Sometimes the padding of the back is old but not that bad and you just need a little something to make it look new again. In this case we go…
White calico on a modern seat before final fabric
Of course you could wonder "Why an extra fabric" and my answer will be: "better quality, long lasting". The foam ages so well when it never see the light or…
How to upholster a modern chair seat with foam
This is a technique you can use on a seat after an elastic webbing, a jute webbing, or on the top of the hessian after sewing the springs. Here we…
How to cover the arm of a Louis 15 style chair
This is a simple little tutorial to learn how to cover this arms on classic Louis 15 style "bergère" or "cabriolet" chairs.