Description
This is a 10 week leisure upholstery course on Tuesday mornings from 10am til 1pm. Everyone brings their own project and if you are a newcomer, you should bring a dining chair, footstool, piano stool or drop in seats while you pick up and practise some basic upholstry skills and orientate yourself with the tools and materials we use in the workshop. You receive lots of 1:1 instruction, demonstration and guidance as well as group learning for other different topics.
You’ll be exposed to a range of projects and skill levels so if you are a beginner, this will give you a little insight into what you might take on next.
**Please note: fees include storage of beginner size projects but there is an additional storage fee to cover the cost of armchairs (including tub chairs, ottomans, large footstools and some nursing chairs) which are 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.
Everyone must send a photo of their project prior to the course. If you need any guidance, please do get in touch via email to saramac@upholsterybureau.com
Please do check out the FAQs page on the website for answers to frequently asked questions.
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
- Attaching webbings, lashing in springs, buttoning
- 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
- Each term we try to look at other topics including chairs through history, chair or fabric designers, 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.
Students provide their own fabric and trimmings or buttons with guidance and help from the tutor. Any materials used in the workshop are paid for at the end of the term.
Fee  £595  (plus materials + storage if applicable)
Early Bird Offer: 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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