New Hampshire Upholstery

Here I have a pair of chairs from a country home from out in the woods of southern New Hampshire to be upholstered.

Below shows the chairs with all the staples removed from these solid hardwood frames.

 The southwestern fabric sure was nice in its day but time for a facelift!

Here below shows the hand sewn decking to the reset base .

 And a nice coat of cotton to keep the bases nice and taught.

 And shown the bases complete.

And the arm patterns stripped of for patterning and sewing up the new arms.

They are sewn all together, the arm fronts, inside arms and outside arms before mirror tailoring them up.

I steamed the foam back to it's original shape to freshen them up.

 And topped the arms with a fresh coat of cotton.

 Below shows the arm sets all mirror cut and sewn ready to be turned and applied.

 There was a lot of tailoring getting these arms looking sharp.

 And the outside back ready to go.

 I most always line the outside before the final coverings.

 

 The outside back soft set, strait and centered.

 The arms tailored up with the seat cushion set.

 The outside arms balanced tailored with the inside arms.

 The inside back centered with the outside back and the piping trim.

 Front center base piping matched with the nosing.

 And the workshop cleaned up and the pair's complete.

 

Thanks for looking!

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