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Soft FrameSoft Frame (sample business) · live demo · in design review

The process

Stripped to the frame, then built back.

Four to six weeks for most chairs, with a message from us at every stage.

The upholstery studio: armchairs waiting on the floor, bolts of fabric on shelves and a long cutting table under the windows

Layer by layer

What happens to each layer.

  1. Top clothThe fabric you choose, cut and pattern-matchedRenewed
  2. CalicoA fitted inner cover that holds the shapeRenewed
  3. StuffingHorsehair kept if it is sound; foam and fibre where it is notKept or renewed
  4. WebbingJute or elastic webbing under the seatRenewed
  5. SpringsCoil springs re-tied, or replaced where they have lost their shapeKept or renewed
  6. FrameJoints, dowels and any woodworm; reglued and repairedKept

The weeks

From your sitting room to ours and back.

  1. Photographs

    You send the whole piece, the underside and any damage

  2. Visit

    We see it at home or the studio and you handle the cloths

  3. Quote

    Labour and materials apart, with what we might find inside

  4. Strip and mend

    Back to the frame; we photograph anything unexpected

  5. Rebuild and cover

    Springs, stuffing, calico, then the top cloth

  6. Return

    We bring it back and place it

Send us three photographs to start.

Soft Frame (sample business) is a sample business. Its forms, bookings and basket are switched off — nothing you do here is sent, saved or sold.

Like Soft Frame?

Pick how you'd start from it. We'll keep your choice — this design, the page you were on and anything you tell us.

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Pages

  • Soft Frame
  • Process
  • Fabrics
  • Prices
  • Quote
  • Privacy and Terms

Built around

  • Enquiries — demo only here
  • Several pages

You'd still connect

  • Your quote requests
  • Your commission board
  • Your fabric orders