Our 10-week evening upholstery course offers 3 hours a week (18:00-21:00) of hands-on learning in traditional techniques, where you’ll work on your own project alongside classmates tackling various furniture pieces. Ideal for beginners and experienced upholsterers alike, you can cover techniques like frame preparation, chair structure rebuilding, and sustainable upholstery materials. Classes run in line with school terms, with one scheduled break.
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Busy during the day? Our evening classes are a wonderful chance to really enjoy learning traditional upholstery techniques in a mixed class where all students work on different items of furniture. You’ll benefit from seeing a variety of works be completed alongside your own project.
Throughout the 10 weeks course you’ll spend 30 hours learning upholstery techniques with our experienced tutors and putting them into practice on a project of your own to take home to love and enjoy. The class is suitable for complete novices to more experienced upholsters looking for more advance technical help.
The class runs 6pm-9pm weekly inline with school holidays
Elements you’ll learn throughout this course:
- Frame preparation
- Rebuilding chair structure
- Traditional upholstery techniques
- Sustainable substitute upholstery materials
Beginners are advised to start with a small project in preparation to take on more ambitious projects, attending an additional term, once familiarised with the traditional tools and materials.
Our classes are a great opportunity to grab some time to yourself, and learn upholstery, leisurely
- Tool hire included.
- Upholstery materials and fabric are supplied at student discount rate. If you require top fabric please give us a call to arrange an appointment at least 2 weeks prior to the course
- Bring along your ‘level appropriate’ project, please send us a photo and we can help manage expectations.
- All projects must be able to fit on a work bench 90x90cm
Any further questions please give us a call or drop us an email
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