Upholstery is typically the work of providing seats with springs, padding, webbing and leather covers or fabric. Airplane, automobile, boat, commercial and domestic furniture pieces can be upholstered.
2. Traditional Upholstery
This is a craft that evolved over centuries for covering and padding up chairs,
sofas and seats. Lashings, springs, stuffing of animal hair, hessians, wools,
grasses and coir, stuffing ties, scrims, blind stitching, top stitching, a solid
wood platform, bridle ties and flocks were used for the upholstery work.
3. Automobile Upholstery
Automobile upholstery consists of the car seats with padding, webbing, springs,
leather covers or fabrics. The person who is skilled in automobile upholstery
work is called a coachtrimmer, motor trimmer or just a trimmer.