Overview
In this video tutorial, you will learn how to upholster a dining room style chair:
- Upholster the outside back from the front of the frame
- Add your inside back support using sagless
- Use cotton and dacron for padding
- Attach your inside back fabric
- Attach a single welt detail to the inside back of the chair
- How to use 2″ of foam and dacron to pad the slip seat
- Create boxed corners on the slip seat and why this is the best option
- Add a single welt detail to the bottom of your seat before finishing off with a dust cover
This tutorial is broken down into parts so you can easily find the section you want. With a membership, you can view this video as many times and as often as you’d like.
- Part 1 Padding and Seat
- Part 2 Seat fabric Cording And Dust Cover
- Part 3 Outside Back Fabric
- Part 4 Padding And Adding Fabric To Inside Back
- Part 5 Adding Decorative Cording To Inside Back
Total Run Time: 122 minutes
Supplies List
- High Density 2.4 firm foam large enough for your project
- 1 ounce bonded Dacron 1 yard by 54″
- 5/32″ Fiber flex welt cord
- 3/8″ staples
- Foam spray adhesive
- Synthetic cotton
- Black accord dust cover
- Hot glue sticks
Tools
- Longnose pneumatic staple gun and compressor
- Osborne 120 1/2 staple puller
- Osborne Bent Awl
- Wire cutters
- Sharp scissors
- Small snipping scissors
- Upholsterers Regulator
- High temp hot glue gun
- Foam Saw or Electric Carving Knife
- Straight edge and tape measure
