How to Upholster a French Style Chair

In this video we'll show you how to build up a bare French style (or carver) frame and upholster it. You'll learn how to add webbing to the seat, how we protect the foam from the webbs and the importance of a hessian layer. You'll also learn how to upholster the outside back from the inside, which is how you have to upholster a chair like this one.

We'll teach you how to make cuts in the fabric to get around the arms on this chair and how to finish the chair off with a double piping trim.

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

01:51 - Webbing the seat
04:47 - Re-building the seat platform including how to build up the foam in layers
26:16 - Measuring for the fabric and tips for working with a patterned fabric
27:18 - Cutting the fabric and matching the patterns
29:44 - Upholstering the seat
42:58 - Upholstering the inside back
46:14 - Re-building the inside back
51:07 - Upholstering the inside back
53:05 - Upholstering the arms
54:06 - Measuring for the double piping
55:41 - Cutting the double piping
59:11 - Sewing the double piping
1:02:38 - Attaching the double piping
1:07:24 - Joining the double piping