How do they match: Upholsterers

  • Design upholstery cover patterns and cutting plans, based on sketches, customer descriptions, or blueprints.
  • Adjust or replace webbing, padding, or springs, and secure them in place.
  • Collaborate with interior designers to decorate rooms and coordinate furnishing fabrics.
  • Examine furniture frames, upholstery, springs, and webbing to locate defects.
  • Interweave and fasten strips of webbing to the backs and undersides of furniture, using small hand tools and fasteners.
  • Measure and cut new covering materials, using patterns and measuring and cutting instruments, following sketches and design specifications.
  • Remove covering, webbing, padding, or defective springs from workpieces, using hand tools such as hammers and tack pullers.
  • Stretch webbing and fabric, using webbing stretchers.

  • Design templates or patterns.
  • Confer with customers or designers to determine order specifications.