How to cover the seat of an armchair
This is how to cover an armchair the seat of an armchair with the professional techniques. The tools needed to cover Cissors Upholstery hammer Tacks for temporary tacking (9 or…
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This is how to cover an armchair the seat of an armchair with the professional techniques. The tools needed to cover Cissors Upholstery hammer Tacks for temporary tacking (9 or…
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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 !…
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…
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…
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…
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…