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Lucy Brodie

From her home in Whitbourne Lucy offers beginners courses where both traditional and modern upholstery techniques and their uses are covered. She will help you strip your piece of furniture and build it back up to a fully upholstered masterpiece for you to take home and be proud of.

Lucy holds a qualification with the Association of Master Upholsterers and Soft Furnishers. She frequently carries out reupholstery commissions as well as new projects for her farmhouse bed and breakfast.

Enjoy learning a new skill on a family run working farm: spacious workshop; delicious, home produced and cooked food; and bed and breakfast accommodation offered.

The techniques taught include:

• Traditional or Modern Upholstery techniques – the basic skills and techniques used to upholster a piece of furniture whichever is appropriate.
• Simple Repairs – making good the frame (filling in holes, gluing joints).
• Handling Fabrics and Materials Correctly – during cutting, stitching and fixing, including such materials as webbing, hessian, animal hair/coir fibre, waddings.
• Handling Tools Correctly – including hammers, tack- lifters, ripping chisels etc.
• Health & Safety guidelines