Upholster a Traditional Kidney Shape Stool - Masterclass

This masterclass is an excellent next step for those who already know how to upholster a traditional stuff and stitched straight edge.

Course aims and benefits:

This course is taught through a series of master classes after which students will create a stuff and stitched edge 'well seat' that flows with the frame lines of a kidney shaped stool, using both concaved and convex curves. Students will produce a traditionally upholstered kidney shaped stool that they will take away with them at the end of the 3-day masterclass. The course provides an opportunity for students to further their skills and techniques used in traditional upholstery.

Students will learn techniques such as;

*Webbing
* Stuffing
* Stitching the seat pad into shape
* Forming a “well seat”
* Tensioning fabrics
* Finishing details

This course includes a series of short master classes followed by the student creating a kidney shaped stool completed with their own choice of fabric. Tuition will be by a variety of teaching methods including demonstration and instructions, one–to-one tutorial guidance, group discussions and critiques. It is important to note that the course is practical requiring a degree of manual dexterity and students will need to participate fully to get the most out of the course.

By the end of the course, students will have;

* Advanced their skills in the use of the double pointed needle and the regulator
* Learnt how to form a given shape using traditional upholstery techniques and materials
* Created a soft area, known as a well seat, of stuffing by making a well surrounded by a roll edge using coir fibre and hair
* Learnt how stitch and manipulate materials using basic hand tools and needles and how to follow fine contours of a given frame
* Learnt how to hand stitch a well seat using traditional stitching methods