The Essential Guide to Upholstery
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 | Product Details: Paperback 264 pages Release Date: 20 October 2008 Publisher: Murdoch Books ISBN: 1741962641 Rating:   Sales Rank: 19228 | | Look for similar books by subject: | | Customers who bought this item also bought:
| | Customer Reviews: The essential guide to upholstery (11 December 2009)This book is excellent both for the beginner as well as an experienced upholsterer. It has a long pedigree and the author is in my opinion far exceeds anything else on the market. A must have book for the upholsterer (16 November 2009)A excellent book with simple but detailed instructions for all upholstery work. I used this book for many years in my interior design business, and have just bought the newer updated version from Amazon. A great value buy! Too much detail where it's not required and not enough where it is! (12 August 2009)I did a traditional upholstery course about 5 years ago and decided I wanted to get back into it so bought this book. It starts promisingly enough with some interesting background and then a very detailed and illustrated account of the reupholstery of a deep buttoned chair. Although this is an ambitious project I felt that the book, in conjunction with my previous knowledge, would allow me to complete such a project after starting with a few more simple items first. My disappointment was with the other projects in the book - they are at various levels from very simple drop-in seats to complicated arm chairs and sofas. Each project is given about 4 pages of explanation in contrast to the 40-ish pages that the deep buttoned chair at the beginning of the book is given. That's ok for the simple projects but not for the complicated ones. I guess the idea is to use the experience of the deep buttoned chair to help with the other more complicated projects but it doesn't really work - it's a bit like telling someone how to build a Porsche in minute detail and then expecting them to be able to build a Ferrari with minimal instruction - you could probably do 75% of it but not the whole thing. So what would I have done differently? - Drop the easy projects, leave out the chapters on 'colour', 'pattern' etc (mostly obvious stuff) and have much more detail for the remainder. essential guide to upholstery (31 July 2005)exactly what you need to get started, the perfect bible for anyone going into re upholstery. Review of Essestial Guide to Upholstery (19 April 2003)I belonged to an upholstery class and we all placed a mass order because we were so impressed with the book. It is full of colour photographs of projects. Information on upholstery materials/tools, how to complete different projects - maybe not in as much detail as a beginner would like, or need - and lots of inspiration with regard to using materials and trimmings. | |
