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This manual teaches practical upholstery techniques for school workshops, beginning with historical background and moving through tools, materials, and step-by-step procedures. It covers upholstery without springs (board structures, chair seats, framed work) and with springs (hard-edge seats, spring-edge methods), includes instructions for making and reupholstering stools, chairs, and set-in seats, and details required materials, orders of procedure, and variations. Photographic and drawing references and corroboration by experienced tradesmen support the guidance. Emphasis is on reproducible period styles, safe shop practice, and correlation with textiles, tanning, and related crafts to provide students a comprehensive technical and aesthetic foundation.

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Title: Furniture upholstery for schools

Author: Emil Aldren Johnson

Release date: March 21, 2023 [eBook #70339]

Language: English

Original publication: United States: The Manual Arts Press, 1919

Credits: Bob Taylor, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

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FURNITURE
UPHOLSTERY
FOR SCHOOLS

By

EMIL A. JOHNSON, B.S., A.M.

Assistant Professor of Manual Arts.
Bradley Polytechnic Institute,
Peoria, Illinois



THE MANUAL ARTS PRESS
PEORIA, ILLINOIS
1919