5-Day Traditional Upholstery Course
Absolutely brilliant!
I’ve wanted to learn traditional upholstery for a long time, but couldn’t find an affordable course. Then I spotted Ann on Facebook and discovered this course. I’ve had an amazing week converting a useless thing into a beautiful and functional piece of furniture and I’ve learned so much! I can’t praise Ann’s teaching enough –; patient, knowledgeable, thorough and non-judgemental, she helped me through all the stages and made me feel like I can really do this on my own at home. I can’t recommend this course highly enough. Well worth every single penny!
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5-Day Traditional Upholstery Course
Upholstery is a very useful skill to learn and it’s possible to do excellent quality work with remarkably few specialist tools. You can also easily turn your new skills into a profitable paying hobby or small business, with some further practice.
Come and join us for a 5-day (35 hour) in-depth course which will give you all the basic professional skills needed to traditionally re-upholster a double overstuffed sprung chair seat. This course gives you all the basics of the 2-day workshop, plus a lot more.
You’ll learn:
- Building the structure of the upholstery in 18 separate layers/processes
Plus:
- How to deal with dodgy joints (the chair’s, not yours!!)
- Bringing tired wood finishes back to life
- Tips for safely stripping old upholstery
- How to make elegant double piping for the edge finish
- How to make buttons and how you would use them to make a buttoned chair back or headboard, for example.
The fee for the workshop includes:
- All materials needed to spring and upholster an upright chair
(you are welcome to bring your own top fabric but we’ll need to chat about it in advance) - A nice, usually antique chair to work on and take home
- Use of all necessary tools
- Refreshments on tap all day
All-inclusive ~ £895.00
Just click on your choice of date below to book
If none of the set workshop days fit your schedule, do have a chat with me as I can sometimes slot in other dates.