This job starts with 5 probably 100 year old dining plates.
Below shows the plates stripped and ready to be restored.
The webbing could be ripped with ones fingers is a good guage that the webbing life has expired.
The amount of tack holes and the shade of the wood are good guages of age.
Here below, stripped and glued.
Natual horsehair dusted out and replaced.
This glue is great for furniture repair.
Below the stuffings replaced and ready for fabric.
And the finished plates all mirror tailored as shown below.
Ready to be installed on the frames.
Along with this job is this very old Hepplewhite arm chair.
I would say was created before the steel era since no springs were involved.
Early 1800's or possibly before.
This removal of this bottom trim wood for upholstering is very rare.
Some repairs on the seat strapping and tailored this up in the same manner as before.
Hand sewn corner pleats with traditional gimp nails.
And the finished piece.
And the last pair of shield backs that have well over a hundred years on them.
All the tacks removed.
And the new fabric worked up together for mirrored tailoring.
Hand sewn pleats.
And the decorative tacks hand set on all sides.
And the finished chairs
Thanks for looking!
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