How to Take a Template, Cut and Upholster a Seat of a Chair

In this video we show you how to take a template of a seat to make sure your seams sit perfectly on the corners. Its important in high quality upholstery that your seams sit on the corners exactly every time and taking a template is the best way to achieve this.

We'll show you what allowances you need to make to the template and then how to make it perfectly symmetrical. We'll also walk you through how to upholster the seat in detail.

We have broken the video down so you can easily find the section you want, here are the time stamps:

00:30 - Adding the felt and foam to the seat
05:05 - Measuring the seat
06:09 - Taking the template
09:46 - Making allowances to the template
11:04 - Adding dacron
14:53 - Stapling on the fabric