How to Upholster: 1860's Chair Pt. 6 - Double Piping 

Looks really great!!! I have been finishing very high end furniture and millwork in homes for over 50yrs in Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Bel Air for over 20yrs then I moved to Aspen for another 23yrs including doing several jobs across the country, one being for Bruce and Patti Springsteen in NJ. I did many many restoration projects one was the George Gershwin Piano for Mrs Ira Gershwin which is now in the Library of Congress in "The Gershwin Room." Watching you work is giving me the confidence to try and upholster a very old chair I am restoring for a customer.. I really like your approach, especially bringing in the older techniques.. I love the history of my craft and was taught by an old Englishman for Blackpool England born in 1905.. The old techniques must be preserved.. You are a very very fine craftsman.. Oh Yeah I love that move you did with putting that piece of of fabric under the chair arm.. I wish I'd seen that before I did this chair.. Is that something you would do normally or is it just for this chair and the result of double piping? Again thank you very much, Bob Levey

This DIYer has gleaned so much from your videos! Thank you!! 😀😀😀

Thank you for this series, giving me confidence to start a love seat that my grandparents bought from a second hand store when they got married in 1912.

This is my first complete reupholster of a complete burlap, strapping,coiled and fabric Eastlake rocker. I’ve done so many cushions and thought, “how hard can it be”? HARD..when you don’t know the steps taken to which piece goes on first, second and so on. I pray I’ve hidden my mistakes well enough. This welting video has saved me. I’m nearing the end of the piece and did not want gimp. So the creating of double welting let me breath a bit easier. I’ve made plenty of single, but this , again is a first for me. I can’t tell you how happy I was to find you to instruct me how, AND to put it on! Much Appreciated, Diane

I watched all 6 episodes start to finish and loved watching you and listening to your accent! I learned SO much. I'm going to be working on my first project and feel like I'm well prepared :)

Fascinating! Well done!! I have a project piece that needs to end with decorative nails/tacks. It’s a bed frame top and bottom (bottom is curved around on both sides) from late 19th century that I found at a thrift store for $50. Someone painted the silk fabric!! So I’m going to reupholster it. Your videos will help me tremendously! So thank you! I’m a novice and very nervous about it, but I have to try. Wish I could send you pictures. Keep up the videos. Absolutely fascinating!! 😍😍

Thank you so much for this series. I have one if these chairs only mine has buttons on the back. I went on utube to see how to apply buttons on upholstery when I saw the chair you were redoing. I started taking mine apart only to find all the same products as yours. I took pictures but can’t upload them unfortunately. I am super excited to start reupholstering my chair! My first hurdle will be acquiring the necessary tools and products needed.

The chair looks so nice. Really beautiful. Thank you again.

Beautiful and inspiring thank you so kindly I'm reupholstering my great-grandmother's couch.. I'm a beginner at 52

I love watching your videos. I am just starting to try to learn upholstery. Your videos have helped me so much. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and techniques.

Love your sense of humor 😊😉

I am working on a chair, and your videos are a big help. its my first time doing it and your advise is really helpful!

Really like your added tip from experience....helps a lot....I am learning..thank you👍🥳

Thank you ! Your awesome!! I'm learning a lot from you .

A beautiful job! I have learned so much.

I've realized I'm way too impatient to actually do this, but it's incredibly satisfying to watch and learn anyway.

Such a beautiful job! Of course I love my Victorian furniture. I've been collecting since I was 13.

Beautiful!

I really enjoyed watching, got some really good tips .

Greatly appreciated and learning a lot

Good camera work on how close you need to cut to the wood lip on the chair. Thanks for the videos and cudo to the camera guy.

why didn't you recondition the chair frame first? Or use dark scratch coverup?

Nice job ,but as a professional upholster I always fold the edges and staple instead off cutting them after stapling,I find it doesn’t show loose threads on the edges especially when using studs ,but nice job

Nerve wracking! I think I’ll be doing it about 1 cm at a time when I get to that point. Great series on this chair. Can you tell me the reason the flange goes down?

Beautiful

Just fab

how did they apply this piping back before hot glue guns?