Last time I ‘ve talked you about upholstery books for beginners, this time I want to talk about my favourite professional upholstery books, those you want to know when you are already an upholsterer ! Let’s see what’s in my own upholstery library now.
French Upholstery Books
The french ” Upholstery Bible”: La tapisserie d’ameublement by Claude Ossut
This big book is the most well known professional upholstery books by french upholsterers. Quite technical, it contains a lot of schemes and explanations.
I will show you how to create the inside of a seat feathers cushion with this book.
Le guide du tapissier décorateur, tome 1: La garniture des sièges
This professional book from de Jean-Pierre Flament (Author) and Jacques Stevens (first edited in 1982) is also a good french upholstery book for professional upholsterer.
I love this book because it is concise and technical. There is actually 2 books in the edition, one is for curtains and sewing only, the other is for upholsterers.
English Upholstery Books
The English also got few good upholstery books.
Practical upholstering: A complete handbook for the upholsterer by John W. Stephenson.
This is a professional from the 40’s, so really old school and so interesting.
Scandinavian Upholstery book (coming)
American Upholstery Books (coming)
This one is a real treasure if you want to know more American upholstery tradition.
Do you know any other book we should know about? 🤓
