Upholsters make and repair furniture with soft, padded textile covering features, such as armchairs, sofas and bedheads.
This involves choosing, measuring, cutting, fitting and sewing fabric and leather materials.
Upholsterers work on household furnishings, and in the interior of cars and aeroplanes..
The earliest upholsterers, from early Egyptian times to the beginning of the Renaissance, nailed animal skins or dressed leather across a rigid framework.
They slowly developed the craft to include cushions, padding, and pillows—st￭ with such materials as goose down and horsehair..
Upholstery is the fabric and padding that covers your furniture—sofas, love seats, arm chairs, ottomans, stools, and more are all covered with upholstery fabric..
Simply put, upholstery is the work of attaching a furniture frame with padding, cushioning, and fabric or leather textile covers..
An upholsterer covers furniture frames with padding and fabric or leather to make beds, mattresses, chairs, sofas and the seats of cars, buses and trains..
Upholstery comes from the Middle English word upholder, which referred to an artisan who makes fabric furnishings.
The term is equally applicable to domestic, automobile, airplane and boat furniture, and can be applied to mattresses, particularly the upper layers, though these often differ significantly in design..
