Author : Alex Law
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1250049857
Also published: London: Pavilion, 2015.
Author : George Hepplewhite
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2013-05-09
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0486142671
Magnificent reproduction of 1788 folio of Hepplewhite furnishings. Classic, highly valued work depicts chairs, stools, sofas, sideboards, beds, pedestals, desks, bookcases, tables, chests of drawers, wardrobes, fire screens, and many other items. 128 plates.
Author : Amanda Brown
Publisher : Storey Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1612121373
Discover the joys of upholstery and bring new life to your worn-out furniture. With a few basic tools, an eye for color, and some ingenuity, you can customize your home with fabrics and textures that reflect your unique personality. This comprehensive guide features more than 900 photographs and includes five projects designed to teach you all you need to know to reupholster any piece of furniture. You’ll soon be confidently stripping down old sofas, stuffing sagging ottomans, and revamping chairs with your own distinctive style.
Author : Alex Law
Publisher : CICO Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 11,51 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781782498889
Rescue old and beautiful chairs, beds, and footstools with fabulous new fabrics and renovate treasured family heirlooms in perfect period style. With clear step-by-step instructions throughout, A Beginner's Guide to Upholstery shows you how to take your old or tattered furniture and fabrics and breathe new life into them with natural and sustainable materials. By saving the money you would have spent on someone else doing the work, you can afford to splash out on a really special length of cloth and create stunning pieces of furniture that reflect your own individual style.
Author : Cherry Dobson
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1446381307
A complete course in upholstering furniture, including tooling up, selecting stuffings and outer textiles, techniques, and cutting plans. The Upholstery Bible is a one-stop resource for furniture upholstering, regardless of your abilities, with easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions explaining all the essential upholstery techniques, from covering buttons to stripping and upholstering entire chairs. Build your skills at your own pace, with advice on the basics such as choosing materials and tools for the job and estimating yardage, as well as more complex upholstering techniques. The Upholstery Bible features invaluable advice on what to look for when buying second hand furniture, teaching you what’s fixable and what’s not as well as how to avoid costly mistakes by choosing the right stitches, and techniques and textiles for the job. “Dobson breaks up the technical stuff with a more inspiring approach . . . If you’re starting out, I’d say this would be a brilliant resource to have . . . offers plenty of answers to the most common gotchas.” —Vintique Upholstery
Author : Frank T. Destro
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Upholstery
ISBN : 9780982888308
This book is a one-of-a-kind, educational, easy-to-follow, how-to guide for the do-it-yourselfer as well as the skilled craftsman. Every step is clearly illustrated with more than six hundred photographs and more than eighty-five tips! Now you can learn all the trade secrets. Individual projects include how to make a zippered pillow with pleated corners and welted seams, how to make two styles of dining room seats, how to make a zippered cushion, how to repair frames and touch up the wood, and a featured project-a fully upholstered wing chair and matching footstool.
Author : David James
Publisher : Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Limited
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781861082763
Offers a guide to beginners that are inspired to renovate, restore or update a piece of upholstery, and provides refurbishing techniques and projects from start to finish.
Author : Charles Locke Eastlake
Publisher : London : Longmans, Green
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN :
Author : Nicole Fulton
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 37,23 MB
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1784723797
In eye-capturing style The Upholsterer's Handbook offers everything you need and more, in order to prepare and inspire you to create beautifully upholstered furniture. The upholstered pieces range in skill level from simple seats to more complex items such as a button-back chair. Various styles of furniture are covered, from classic and elegant to other more styled and designer pieces.The Upholsterer's Handbook opens with sections on sourcing furniture, tools and materials, and choosing fabrics - including finishes and trimmings, which are often the key to the success of a piece. With special photography throughout, basic techniques are illustrated step-by-step, from stripping back to top stuffing to making cushions. 18 stunning projects are featured with varying skill levels, covering such diverse items as a G-plan chair, a sofa, a '70s flower-shaped stool, dining chairs, and headboards. Throughout Nicole Fulton demonstrates techniques using linen, satin, velvet, leather, cowhide, and other fabrics that give the furniture a unique contemporary look.
Author : Dennis Parks
Publisher : Motorbooks International
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780760320433
This book provides detailed coverage of upholstery and interior options, including the variety of materials, projected costs, tools used, and more.
