Capabilities — Upholstery
Stitched by hand,
made to last
Hand-stitched leather, specialist fabrics and precision pattern-cutting, every seat, sofa and headboard crafted with care.
Hand-stitched leather, specialist fabrics and precision pattern-cutting, every seat, sofa and headboard crafted with care.
The upholstery workshop handles everything from single dining chairs to full hotel room programmes. Craftspeople trained in traditional upholstery techniques work alongside modern cutting and sewing equipment. Pattern-cutting, hand-stitching, channelling, buttoning and piping are all executed in-house. Full-grain leathers, performance fabrics and specialist textiles from European and British mills — material specified or matched to suit the project.
Every upholstered piece begins with the frame. Frames are constructed from kiln-dried beech or supplied as client-specified metalwork. Traditional coil spring units are eight-way hand-tied for seating where sprung suspension is required. Sinuous spring systems are used where a lower seat profile is specified. Webbing is interlaced and tensioned before padding begins.
Padding is built in layers to specification. Traditional horsehair provides the firmness and recovery characteristic of period-style upholstery. High-resilience foam, curled fibre and Dacron wrapping are used for contemporary profiles. Feather and down cushions are filled and balanced in-house. Padding material and density determine the final hand and silhouette of the piece — decided at the specification stage, not adjusted on site.
Pattern cutting is executed to minimise waste and ensure placement lands where specified — centred across seat cushions, matched across back and seat panels. Channelling and fluting are stitched by hand. Buttoning is set to an approved diagram before fixing. Piping, contrast welts and decorative top-stitching are worked on each individual piece. Industrial sewing machines handle double-thickness hides and heavy contract weaves.
COM and COL are accepted. Fabric is quoted at 137 cm width; leather is calculated per frame from standard hides. Pattern repeats above 4 cm incur an additional cutting allowance. Residential pieces carry a FR inter-liner as standard; contract work meets Crib 5 (BS 5852:2006). Fire compliance documentation is supplied with every commercial order.
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