What is Traditional Upholstery?

Traditional upholstery involves using time-honoured traditional methods and materials in order to create comfortable, long lasting seating. The time and skill involved is reflected in the final sale price.

The process of traditional upholstery is detailed below in a series of photographs and can involve the use of webbing, springs, hessian, coir, hand-stitching, hair, cotton flock and calico. We NEVER use foam.

 

Webbing the frame

Lashing the springs

 

Covering with hessian

 

The first stuffing with coir

 

Layer of hessian waiting to be hand stitched

 

The second stuffing with hair, once the hand stitched roll edge is complete

 

Cotton flock (used to prevent hair protruding through the top layers)

 

Calico - the final layer before adding the covering materials

 

NB: Staples are only used in rare circumstances. This is usually when an item has already been re-upholstered a number of times resulting in some damage to the wood and where the use of tacks would cause further, irreparable damage.