Wednesday Evenings starts 23rd April 2025

£470.00

Wednesday Evening upholstery class.   All levels welcome.

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Course duration  10 weeks with a half term break w/c 26th May 2025

Time   6:30 til 9pm

Starts  Monday 23rd April 2025

Last session Monday 2nd July 2025

Fee    £470 + materials + storage fee if applicable

Beginners bring a footstool, dining chair or drop in seat to the first class.   To avoid disappointment, please email saramac@upholsterybureau.com with a photo of your project prior to the course to confirm its suitability.

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Description

This is a 10 week course on Wednesday evenings 6:30pm til 9pm.  All levels are welcome and everyone brings their own project to work on.  You’ll be exposed to a range of projects with some students working on more advanced projects and this can you a little insight into what may lay ahead for you!

If you are a new comer, the best advice, is to start with a project such as a dining chair, loose seats, footstool, or small nursing chair as an appropriate project.  The course is designed to give you lots of tips and techniques used in the trade and to enhance your understanding and appreciation of this huge craft.

As you progress, the tutor will guide you with choosing subsequent projects.  To avoid disappointment, everyone sends a photo of their proposed project to me before the course starts.  Please email saramac@upholsterybureau.com

There is lots of 1:1 instruction and demonstration as well as some group learning for different topics.

Do check out the FAQs page for lots of answers about all kinds of things.

**Please note, fees include storage for all beginner size projects.  Armchairs (including some nursing chairs) will be charged £65 per term and extra large chairs (depth and width are both 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 ask the tutor.

The classes include:

  • instruction for complete or partial ripping out and reupholstery
  • Or carrying out a recover (only removing and then replacing the top fabric)
  • Traditional & modern upholstery techniques applied to domestic furniture, tools and materials and how we handle them
  • Guidance to help you choose and find an appropriate fabric for your project
  • Simple wood cleaning and reviving techniques and small project repairs
  • Choosing upholstery fabrics and trimmings, making piping and double piping
  • Other topics for discussion are chair or fabric designers, developments in sustainability/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.   Please email me if you think you need advice on a project.

Students provide their own fabric, trimming and/or buttons required, with the tutor’s help and guidance.   Any materials used in the workshop are added up towards the end of the course and paid for.

Fee:  £470 + materials + storage fee if applicable

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