Upholsterers

Make, repair, or replace upholstery for household furniture or transportation vehicles.

Job Task

• Designs upholstery cover patterns.
• Repairs frame of workpiece.
• Removes covering, webbing, padding, and defective springs from workpiece, using hand tools.
• Examines upholstery to locate defects.
• Attaches fasteners, grommets, buckles, ornamental trim, and other accessories to cover or frame, using hand tools.
• Reads order and applies knowledge and experience with materials to determine type and amount of material required to cover workpiece.
• Attaches binding or applies solutions to edges of cut material to prevent raveling.
• Fits, installs, and secures material on workpiece, using hand tools, power tools, glue, cement, or staples.
• Operates sewing machine to seam cushions and join various sections of covering material.
• Measures and cuts new covering material, using pattern and measuring and cutting instruments.
• Adjusts or replaces webbing, padding, and springs and secures them in place.
• Sews rips or tears in material, or creates tufting, using needle and thread.
• Draws cutting lines on material following pattern, templates, sketches, or blueprints, using chalk, pencil, paint, or other method.
• Refinishes wood surfaces on upholstered or reupholstered furniture.
• Maintains records of time required to perform each job.
• Drills or punches holes in material.
• Stacks, aligns, and smoothes material on cutting table.

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