Four elegant dining chairs with woven backs needed new seats. The condition of the seats varied between the chairs – although the chairs were the same.
As with many projects there were some questions to be answered! First, the old stuffings of the most complete seat needed to be removed.
Under the worn hessian there were layers of wool felt and hair, covering a well put together traditional rolled edge. All were removed.
With those gone, a hessian support sheet was visible.
The hessian was removed and finally the webbing to leave a bare frame.
The sides of the frame had an unfinished section above the lower polished section. Curiously, this bare section was separately attached to the seats and had no previous fixing holes in it at all – completely new, even though the chairs had supposedly had a previous cover.
Time to build the new seats.
New webbing was added and covered in a hessian support cloth.
A paper roll was used instead of stitching a rolled edge.
Rubberised hair was added behind the roll topped with felt as padding.
Wool guard was attached tightly over the top as a barrier cloth.
Finally the new covers were added attached to the new wood around the base.
Double piping trim was added around the seats to cover the raw fabric edges.
Project complete.
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