furniture upholsterer
Code 7534.3.1
Furniture upholsterers provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing and covers. Sometimes they have to remove old padding, filling and broken strings before to replace them using tools such as a tack puller, chisel or mallet. The aim is to provide comfort and beauty to seats as backs of the furniture.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- upholstery tools
- furniture industry
- properties of textile materials
- furniture trends
- upholstery fillings
Skills and competences
- cut textiles
- sew textile-based articles
- sew pieces of fabric
- create patterns for textile products
- decorate furniture
- use manual sewing techniques
- install spring suspension
- clean furniture
- provide customized upholstery
- perform upholstery repair
- fasten components
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences