Professional module in upholstery and seating

Acquire the skills, professional gestures and techniques needed to restore a seat and make a seat cushion.

Acquire the various stages involved in restoring a seat:

• Disinfecting: preparing the support, checking that the seat is in order
• Saddling
• Guindage: fitting the springs and attaching the cords to the springs
• Fitting a strong canvas
• Fitting with plant horsehair, distributing the horsehair over the entire surface formed by the seat base
• Wrapping: fitting a canvas to form the seat
• Stitching the upholstery to final shape
• Fitting a white canvas
• Fitting the fabric
• Finishing: braid, nail, piping, ...
• Measuring the seat in order to make a cutting plan and calculate the quantity of fabric to be used (yardage)
  

Making a seat cushion

• Knowing the different types of bergère seat cushions
• Making a template
• Make a piping and join it to the fabric
• Assemble the different parts of the cushion
• Know and make the different fastenings
• Make the inner cover
• Know and make the different upholstery
  

• Statement of skills and/or competencies

• All audiences

• Fully classroom-based training

• Personalised course
• Group lessons

• Equipped technical platforms

Education Nationale certified teachers, Bac +3 trainers with significant experience in adult education, professional lecturers.

Registrations and information every Monday and Friday morning from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. by appointment.

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