history: What type of upholstery do you like?
knowledge: The word ''upholstery'' comes from the Middle English word ''upholder'', which referred to a tradesman who held up his goods.
response: None actually but the word actually comes from a Middle English word, "upholder", which is about a tradesman who holds up their goods.
history: What type of upholstery do you like?
None actually but the word actually comes from a Middle English word, "upholder", which is about a tradesman who holds up their goods.
Wow that's neat to know, do you know what they specifically do on seats?
knowledge: Upholstery is the work of providing furniture, especially seats, with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers.
response: Yes, the seat is provided with things like padding, springs, some leather or fabric cover, and webbing.
history: What type of upholstery do you like?
None actually but the word actually comes from a Middle English word, "upholder", which is about a tradesman who holds up their goods.
Wow that's neat to know, do you know what they specifically do on seats?
Yes, the seat is provided with things like padding, springs, some leather or fabric cover, and webbing.
Oh I see, well they may need to use some tough leather for ours, our dog teared it up. What do I call a person who does upholstery? I want to check local ones out.
knowledge: A person who works with upholstery is called an upholsterer; an apprentice upholsterer is sometimes called an outsider or trimmer.
response: I see, an upholstery worker is called an upholsterer.
history: What type of upholstery do you like?
None actually but the word actually comes from a Middle English word, "upholder", which is about a tradesman who holds up their goods.
Wow that's neat to know, do you know what they specifically do on seats?
Yes, the seat is provided with things like padding, springs, some leather or fabric cover, and webbing.
Oh I see, well they may need to use some tough leather for ours, our dog teared it up. What do I call a person who does upholstery? I want to check local ones out.
I see, an upholstery worker is called an upholsterer.
Yeah, I'll check them out soon, thanks! Do you happen to know the difference between modern upholstery and traditional?
knowledge: Traditional upholstery uses materials like coil springs (post-1850), animal hair (horse, hog and cow), coir, straw and hay, hessians, linen scrims, wadding, etc., and is done by hand, building each layer up.
response: Traditional upholstery used things like coir, animal hair, coil springs after 1850 and more and each layer was built by hand!