Upholstery is a specialized skilled trade that entails the art of crafting and restoring fine furniture with quality details, such as diamond tufting, topstitching, channels, webbing, coil springs, “ultra-cell” foam, and padding. For high-end pieces, upholsterers may opt for designer-brand fabrics or leather.

Upholstery Chair

They are traditionally wooden framework support on which an artist fastens a piece of canvas. They are also used for small-scale embroidery to provide steady tension, affixing the edges of the fabric with push-pins or a staple gun before beginning to sew, and then removing it from the stretcher when the work is complete. Stretchers are usually in the shape of a rectangle, although shaped canvases are also possible.

A webbing stretcher is an upholstery tool used to stretch webbing

A person who works with upholstery is called an upholsterer. An apprentice upholsterer is sometimes called an outsider or trimmer.

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You will have the opportunity to see our variety of swatches from Faux leather to different colors of fabrics like suede, velvet, cotton, and many others.

A stretcher bar

A stretcher bar is used to construct a wooden stretcher used by artists to mount their canvases.  Interior angle of a completed stretcher bar corner showing the slot designed to fit a Corner key.

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