Hints & Tips

We have created this section of the website so that you can get additional help with your upholstery projects. We have produced a number of “how to” videos and picture guides to show you how to do a number of common projects.

If you can’t find what you are looking for, check our YouTube Channel, Blog and Facebook Page for inspiration. If all else fails, we’d love to hear from you. Please call us on 01691 624023 or email sa***@*******************co.uk

How to: Fibre or Plastic Tack Strip

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How to make your own beanbag

Why use upholstery buttons?

How To Make An Interior Sprung Cushion Parts 1 & 2

Making your own zipped, boxed cushion cover

Drop-in seat, in foam – Part 2

Using Edging Profiles

How To Make A Footstool – Part 1

Mending Holes and Splits in Frames (Frame preparation)

Quick Click Glides

How to create your own headboard

Attaching Legs to Furniture with T Nuts

New Video: How to Attach Piping Around a Shaped Corner

How to Use a Regulator

Slip Stitching (Or Ladder Stitch)

Edge Stitching

How to fix Traditional Webbing

Common questions about Fiddes Products (Wood finishing)

Using a Cabinet Scraper (wood finishing)

Our brand new footstool kit – Make your own at home!

Traditional Drop-in Seat Part 2

How To Use Rubberised Hair

How to: Metal Tack Strip

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Surface Buttoning

Common questions about Cane, Rush and Seagrass

How to Use a Cushion Template

Drop-in seat, in foam – Part 1

Drop-in seat, in foam – Part 3

Applying foam to a stool

How To Make A Footstool – Part 2

The new floor protection glides!

‘Move It’ pads – Moving heavy furniture made very easy (glides)

How to Fix Queen Anne Legs

How to make double piping

Customer Questions & Answers

Types of Upholstery Scrim (Hessian)

Blind Stitching

Using ripping out tools

How to use a webbing stretcher / strainer

Looking after your wooden furniture (wood finishing)

Fitting zip slides onto continuous zipping using our very own ‘Zip-Jig’

Traditional Drop-in Seat Part 1

Traditional Drop-in Seat Part 3

How to Attach Clips to Pirelli Webbing