Description
This is a leisure class on Tuesday afternoons from 1:30pm -4pm and everyone brings their own project to work on.  As a newcomer, the best advice always, is to bring a dining chair, a footstool or piano stool, loose seats or a small nursing chair to start with. The tutor will give you lots of 1 to 1 instruction as the classes are small and comprised of beginners and experienced alike. Everyone sends a photo of their project to the tutor prior to the course. If you need any guidance, please do get in touch via email to saramac@upholsterybureau.com
The classes can include:
- Complete or partial ripping out and reupholstery
- Or only removing the top fabric and recovering
- Traditional & modern upholstery techniques, tools and materials and how we handle them; practising cuts around posts and rails; buttoning work
- Simple wood cleaning and reviving techniques and small project repairs
- Choosing and sourcing upholstery fabrics and trimmings, making piping and double piping
- More experienced students will be measuring and drawing up cutting plans, trying to work more independently
- Each term we try to look at a related topic such as a chair or a fabric designer, chairs through history, developments in sustainability and other aspects of the upholstery trade
- Email me a photo of your project prior to the course at saramac@upholsterybureau.com and check out the FAQs page for guidance and advice.  Feel free to email me if you think you need advice on a project.
There is the option to attend all day on Tuesdays! If you wish to attend all day Tuesday, there is the option to do this.
Please note that storage of beginner type projects is included in the fee, but armchairs will incur an additional storage fee to cover the cost of storage. Armchairs (including some nursing chairs) will be charged £65 per term and extra large chairs (depth and width are over 73cm) £120 per term. This fee is paid at your first session, by card.** If you are unsure if you will be charged a storage fee, please do ask the tutor.
Fee  £495 (plus materials + storage if applicable)
First 10 students to enrol before 5th December are entitled to attend a complimentary session on Saturday 7th March 2026. You may attend the Morning 9:30am-12:30pm OR the Afternoon 1pm to 4pm. Please make sure this date works for you as it is not possible to be flexible this term with this complimentary session.
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