For all courses you should bring along a small piece of upholstered work as your 1st project. Eg: dining chair, drop-in seat or footstool. Larger pieces of furniture will need to be discussed beforehand.

Please be aware that fabric sometimes hides a lot, so be prepared that your chair may need more work than you think.

Materials & Tools

Materials, projects & fabrics are not supplied, there are limited tools to use in the studio only. Unfortunately due to Covid I am unable to lend any other items such as pins as they are near on impossible to disinfect.

If you wish to buy your own tools the following list is a guide for your basic kit, however I do sell a starter kit, which consists of the following plus a webbing stretcher, curved needles & pins. Other items can be purchased too such as  hessian, lining cloth, stuffings, tacks, threads etc.

Basic Tools

• a magnetic upholstery hammer 
• pincers
• Tack & staple lifter
• Wooden mallet
• Scissors (you should bring your own fabric scissors not included in kit) 
• notepad and/or camera to record your progress & to create a portfolio of work should you wish (not included in kit) .