Job Responsibilities

• Discussing upholstery fabric, colour and style with customers and providing cost estimates for upholstering furniture or other items
• Installing, arranging and securing springs, padding and covering material to furniture frames
• Laying out, cutting, fabricating and installing upholstery in aircrafts, motor vehicles, railway cars, boats and ships
• Sewing upholstery materials by hand to seam cushions and joining sections of covering materials
• Renovating antique furniture using a variety of tools including ripping chisels, magnetic hammers and long needles
• Sewing rips or tears in material, or creating tufting, using needle and thread
• Collaborating with interior designers to decorate rooms and coordinate furnishing fabrics
• Making quilts, cushions and mattresses
• Tacking, gluing or sewing ornamental trims, buckles, braids, buttons and other accessories to covers or frames on upholstered items
• Repairing raw hide coverings of artificial limbs
• Laying out, measuring and cutting upholstery materials following patterns, templates, sketches, or design specifications
• Making upholstery patterns from sketches, customer descriptions or blueprints