Posts Tagged "upholstery"
RACHEL SOUTH – THIRD GENERATION CHAIR CANER
Chair caning is a very old traditional craft, sometimes known as hand, strand or hole-to-hole caning. Learn moreSumer School at The Goodlife Centre
A Summer of Lifelong Learning in Waterloo The Goodlife Centre, an independent learning space in Waterloo that specializes in short and snappy daytime, evening and weekend DIY classes, is providing a selection of five-day intensive courses to give a good grounding in a chosen hobby. The choice will be... Learn moreTime Out Magazine – Things to Do
Time Out Magazine popped along to the workshop to meet our upholsterer Lou Richardson for their feature on Things to Do in September. Learn moreRELOVED Loves upholstery
May’s Reloved magazine features our Upholster a Footstool workshop. Learn moreReview: Upholster a Deep Buttoned Footstool
From time to time we ask our learners to review our workshops. Lucy wanted to know how to reupholster a stool with buttons and our ‘upholster a deep buttoned footstool’ workshop was perfect for her. As well as learning about choosing the right fabric to cover a footstool and... Learn morePut your feet up
Jan Dodd brought me some just laid eggs from her South London hens when she popped into the centre yesterday. She came to pick up the frame for an unusual upholstered footstool project. I have asked her to make an ‘exposed’ sample of what will be going on under... Learn moreFurniture facelifts.
A great group of people came to The Goodlife Centre on Saturday, ready to learn the basics of upholstery. Our first challange was UN Upholstering the waif chair that someone had left outside our offices recently. As it wont be appearing on the Antiques Roadshow, every one said it... Learn more
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