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Upholstery
This document discusses upholstery, including its definition as providing padding, springs, fabric or leather covers to furniture; the tools and materials used in upholstery like coil springs, animal hair, coir, straw and modern synthetics; and that an upholsterer installs these materials while an apprentice is sometimes called an outsider or trimmer.
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Upholstery
- 1. Upholstery Topics: •Tools for upholstery • Materials for upholstery • Types of upholstery
- 2. Upholstery • the workof providing furniture, especially seats, with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers. • comes from the Middle English word upholder, which referred to a tradesman who held up his goods. • The term is equally applicable to domestic, automobile, airplane and boat furniture. • A person who works with upholstery is called an upholsterer; • an apprentice upholsterer is sometimes called an outsider or trimmer. • Traditional upholstery uses materials like coil springs (post-1850), animal hair (horse, hog & cow), coir, straw and hay, hessians, linen scrims, wadding, etc., and is done by hand, building each layer up. • In contrast, modern upholsterers employ synthetic materials like Dacron and vinyl, serpentine springs, and so on.
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