Dining Seats

Two substantial Victorian dining seats, with fine carving and turned, fluted legs needed work.

As for many projects, the thought was this might be a Recovering project but in practice it was a Restoration project.

How two matching dining seats could finish up with such disparate covers will never be known but when identical covers were added, they became a pair once again.

The polish work needed cleaning, waxing and polishing.

One of the chairs had collapsed webbing and split support hessian. The other had a second layer of blue fabric!

The stuffings were freed, the old seat pads removed and the frames cleaned up.

The fabric and hessian support layer were removed from the back. 

This revealed that historically, there had been buttons – now covered on the front with newer stuffings.

The fabric and surround of the front pads were removed. The original stuffings of both the front and back were covered in woolguard.

The seats of both chairs had new webbing added.

A hessian layer was added over the webbing.

The old stuffings were reconnected. New hair was added to the top and held in place with a calico layer.

Cover  fabric was added to seat and both inner and  outer back.

The outer back was trimmed with double piping with the join wrapped at the bottom.

Care was taken for the piping to follow the shaping of the show wood.

The seat and inner back were also trimmed with double piping to complete the project.

Ready to be returned!

JBerryUpholstery has many examples of furniture Recovering and Restoration and also Soft Furnishings to add to or complement the finished items. You can see pictures of these in the Galleries– Recovering Gallery, Restoration Gallery, Soft Furnishings Gallery and Transformations.

If you have some upholstery that is in need of a bit of TLC or you are interested in Soft Furnishings then please contact us.