100 years of upholstery

Very interesting project came across my bench recently. A small club chair. Not too noteworthy in and of itself, but when I cracked her open it was like time traveling. The first layer...


Ethan Allen style fall leaves

And then a faux quilt look

Most of this one had actually been removed but was a nice royal blue twill at one point.

This fabric is hard to tell from the picture but it's a faux cross stitch, in an interesting pastoral scene.

A bouquet of flowers and a butterfly! I am guessing at this point the fabric is from the early 1900's

And last but definitely not least, these sweet purple roses. I am hoping my friend Emily is making something fantastic with this piece as it was to hard to just throw it in the landfill.

Sadly, I had to remove all the other fabrics in order to rebuild the infa structure of this sweet historian. My customer chose this nice green and creme rose motif. Maybe it will be the start for the next hundred years of upholstery!