Download or read book Upholstery Techniques Illustrated written by W. Lloyd Gheen and published by Tab Books. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upholstery Techniques Illustrated written by W. Lloyd Gheen and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1994-04 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on tools, furniture styles, fabrics, estimating, cleaning and maintenance, buttons, channelling, tufting, finishing alternatives, working with vinyls and sewing machines. Other topics include stripping, cushion-making, stuffing, padding, inside and outside arms and backs.
Download or read book The Upholstery Bible written by Cherry Dobson and published by David and Charles. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Complete Step by Step Upholstery written by David Sowle and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With 15 easy to follow, fabulously illustrated step-by-step projects, this book is just what the beginning upholsterer needs.
Download or read book Singer Upholstery Basics Plus written by Steve Cone and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive, user-friendly upholstery book on the market just got better! Over its lifetime, SINGER Upholstery Basics has sold nearly 150,000 copies. Now, with five new projects and an entirely fresh presentation, SINGER Upholstery Basics Plus is truly the best book for beginners and seasoned upholstery buffs alike. All the basic upholstery techniques are taught. Projects include all styles of chairs or couches, stools, different styles of ottomans, a bench, and a headboard. Some projects are built-from-scratch items that require only simple carpentry skills for building the frames. Others show the complete process of stripping, repairing, and reupholstering old furniture pieces to like-new condition. Large color photos of the step-by-step instructions set this book apart from all the others. 300+ photos show the techniques in great detail, plus 5 new projects Projects are practical and most representative of the types of furniture pieces usually reupholstered or constructed from scratch Hidden wire-o binding keeps the book open flat while you work
Download or read book Upholstery written by David James and published by Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Contemporary Upholstery written by Hannah Stanton and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Upholstery combines straightforward upholstery techniques with advice on choosing and styling fabrics, inspiring people to rescue and revive all sorts of furniture. Packed full of fabric advice, yardage charts, upholstery tutorials, and case studies that feature salvaged and inexpensive furniture, this book is the perfect go-to-guide for the many sewers, designers, artists and creative folk who would happily dive into a flurry of fabric, staples, paints, and webbing to update and transform pieces of furniture. The first section of the book provides an overview of the tools and materials commonly used for upholstery. The second is devoted to fabric, including detailed advice on choosing and working with fabric. Section three then provides practical tutorials that are technique rather than project driven and range from quick makeovers to simple solutions for processes like webbing and springing. Twelve case studies are included, all from designers who have taken the plunge and successfully re-upholstered their home furniture. They explain their fabric and colour choices, the challenges faced and offer valuable money- and time-saving tips for stunning results.
Download or read book The Craft of Upholstery written by Ken Knowles and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A how-to book illustrating the craft of upholstery. Written by a second generation upholsterer who explains both automotive and furniture upholstery techniques. Each project is described from start to finish along with step by step photographs.Also included are chapters on fabrics, tools , supplies and yardage estimates.
Download or read book Spruce A Step by Step Guide to Upholstery and Design written by Amanda Brown and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 1139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Upholstery Conservation Principles and Practice written by Dinah Eastop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well referenced book provides an amply illustrated publication on upholstery conservation which discusses and reviews the issues related to the care, interpretation and treatment of upholstered furniture. Through many well illustrated case studies the inter-disciplinary collaboration fundamental to upholstery conservation, and the complex decision-making process involved in the treatment of upholstered furniture, are made evident. The case histories are contributed by leading international practitioners in the field and concern objects and collections in the care of English Heritage, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other internationally renowned institutions. Likewise, the contributors, from both sides of the Atlantic, are world-renowned specialists and leaders in this area of conservation working for the public and private sectors. The case histories, illustrated in colour, black and white and specially prepared line drawings, concern object treatment and documentation, the conservation of information, the function and the artefact. They range from the documentation of eighteenth century removable chair covers and the treatment of a nineteenth century carriage to a twentieth century foam-filled chair belonging to a museum.
Download or read book Illustrated Guide to Sewing Home Furnishings written by Fox Chapel Publishing and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the expert sewing techniques shared in this book, anyone can create home-made soft furnishings with a designer's flair.
Download or read book Style Stitch Staple written by Hannah Stanton and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Style, Stitch, Staple combines straightforward upholstery techniques with advice on choosing and styling fabrics to help the design-savvy reader transform even the most dilapidated furniture into gorgeous updated pieces. Packed full of fabric advice, yardage charts, upholstery tutorials, and case studies that feature salvaged and inexpensive furniture, this book is the perfect go-to-guide for the many sewers, designers, artists, and creative folk who want to learn to rescue and revive all manner of furniture-footstools, headboards, or dining room chairs-to give their homes that unique, personalized, and stylish look.
Download or read book Professional Upholstering written by Frank T. Destro and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Upholstery in America Europe written by Edward S. Cooke and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upholstery in America fills a large gap in our knowledge of the decorative arts.
Download or read book Beginners Upholstery Techniques written by David James and published by GMC Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled from material previously published in the author's Upholstery, a complete course (1990) and Uphostery, a beginner's guide (2004).
Download or read book Upholstery a Complete Course written by David James and published by GMC Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this second updated edition, David James provides an encyclopaedic guide to the techniques and materials involved in upholstery. The book covers everything from traditional handwork to the latest industrial techniques, giving a complete overview of the upholstery trade. Five step-by-step projects follow, to enable readers to put a few of the techniques explained into practice."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Upholstery written by Malcolm Hopkins and published by New Holland Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work takes the student or home upholsterer on from the most basic skills, gradually building up a working knowledge of the various methods, so that by the finish any type of chair can be tackled with confidence. A reference section contains a guide to tools, springs, fillings and fabrics.
