About : standard furniture upholstered bed
Title : standard furniture upholstered bed
standard furniture upholstered bed
hi, my name is ben willis. i’m coordinatorfor the furniture technology institute at caldwell community college and technical institute.you may have read in the newspapers and looking on the employment sheets there are plentyof jobs available in upholstery, sewing and cutting in this region. caldwell communitycollege offers several training programs in all of these areas to help better prepareyou to go into one of these fields. the videos that you’re getting ready to see are goingto tell you about the skills that are necessary and some of the things that you will actuallylearn by taking some of the courses here at caldwell community college to help prepareyou better to enter these fields in furniture. these jobs are still alive, they pay verywell, the working environments are very good
so it is a good field to get into if you areinterested in getting into that so please give us a call at caldwell community collegeif you have any questions about how to go into these fields. daniel stalnakeri’m a fabric cutter; i cut cloth. these are the tools that you need to cut cloth.scissors, paper, usually just a ruler, measuring tape. i like to use either a crayon or chalkto mark out the fabric and when i first start off marking and looking, i always try to inspectthe fabric to make sure there’s no defects or anything like that sort and feel of thegrain and nap to determine which direction to top the piece. usually with all cuttingthe standard is if the nap is rough and up,
smooth it down, then you would top it withthe nap rough and up. ok, this right here is going to be a small ottoman. it’s gota tight seat and two arm bolsters. and it’s pretty simple, a small piece. and i’m usingactually a blue chalk so i can see my marks. and actually it’s not going to show good.this might show up better. it’s very important to notice that the grain and everything isstraight. ok, and these right here are just small in arms and out arms. these are armbolsters, it’s a small pillow. a lot of times on a larger piece i would go ahead anddo a quick layout, lay all my pieces out to make sure i could get it as tight as possibleon the fabric to save as much fabric as necessary. really, that’s about the best thing to doon a lot of pieces but since this is a small
piece you can pretty much see where everythinggoes. and i try to keep everything as close together especially a plain fabric like thisi can just put everything on top of each other. that way i can make one cut instead of numerouscuts. a lot of the skills, you need to be real steady always thinking ahead to knowexactly where you’re going to lay your next piece. really, it’s pretty simple, especiallycutting a plain fabric. now, anything’s got designs and it needs to sew back together.actually, we call it flow max is a lot more difficult and a lot more thinking cause you’vealways got to be thinking about which way it’s going because sometimes it’s easyto get turned around on a lot of this stuff because you don’t want nothing going ina different direction or an opposite way.
pretty much, keep everything formal, goingone way, it’s really just a lot of thinking to it. and being steady and careful causethere’s a lot of things. and right here’s my circle knife. this is one of the main toolsthat i use a whole lot during the day. this, my scissors to cut fabric with, really onsomething like this plain, it’s easy to cut this. but doing circles and stuff. forme it’s easy for me to use my scissors. i’m going to go ahead and start by cuttingthis. and it’s very important to watch the blade here because without the safety on there,it’s dangerous. you could lose a finger or something. and, usually the basic thing,what i do, it helps to remind me what each piece is, especially if you’ve got a lotof pieces sometimes it can be difficult to
keep up with. so i’ll just go ahead andwrite down what each piece is. plus, by marking the backs of the fabric and stuff, as it goeson down the line, as it goes to the sewer, they’ll know what the piece is.donna norris when you first start off when you learn tosew you have to be familiar with your machine: how it operates, how the safety products andall that comes with it. you have needle guards that you have to keep on for osha regulations.you need scissors, snips, ink pens, screwdrivers, the basic little tools and stuff for yourjob. when you get a piece of work, you go and you find your spec sheet. it has the stylenumber on it and it tells you what to do to that piece. what you’re supposed to do withit, how it goes, the supplies you need to
go on it to complete the whole process. likethis is what they call a flat piece, like what they call flatwork. it’s the insideand outside of the sofa. and you just look up your specs and start sewing. when you sewcushions, your spec sheets tell you what size boxing it has, where the zipper goes, howmany pillows go with it, how to sew the back pillow. basically, everything you need toknow is on this spec sheet. it’ll tell you how wide, how narrow, how many pleats, wherethe zipper goes, everything’s on the spec sheet. the more you learn to read these, thebetter off you are in your job. this is a cushion. you pull your pay ticket off first.you start with your border. this comes from the cutting department, then they run it throughthe zipper machine; then from the zipper machine
they piece the borders together. they piecethe borders together; then they run them through the border machine. then they pair it up withthe work. you piece your border together; it was amazing when i first started sewingto tell you how a bunch of pieces of fabric come together to make a big frame. i’vebeen told it looks easy; some of it is, some of it’s not. jeff coffeythis is a raw frame, this is what we start with. it comes over from the spring up plantlike this, already sprung up. they’ve put legs on it here, just temporary legs beforeit comes out to us so we can slide it around, work with it on our tables. and then the setup department here, they bring all of the
parts together. like this is a roll up forthis particular piece. each rollup is different because you have the different size of patternsthat have to go in it and there’s a rope that’s in here that goes in it. the padthat goes all along the front of it for the seat and all this starts right here in theset up department. and then they push that piece all the way down and come up here. theyhave the covers ready to go in each individual piece. and as they bring it up through herethey just get the covers and the rubber for the arms and to go across the back or itsfiber. this is farther down in the set up department; they’ve got the poly rolls inthe pieces now that are ready to go out to the upholsterers. they’re setting it upand they’re getting the cushions ready for
each individual piece and he’s filling thosecushions. then the set up ladies take them and they put the cushion that belongs in thepiece that matches up with the actual roll up and the whole roll here. each cushion hasto match up with those for the stripes and all of that. so right now this one’s readyto be taken over and put in line once they get the cushions in it. it has the poly roll,has the permanent legs, the actual roll up for the upholsterer to work with, and theactual cover to finish everything up. and all this one’s just waiting for the cushionsand it will be ready to be taken out and start upholstering. mark just set a piece up onhis table. this is how he starts, he’s separating all of the pieces out, putting them wherehe can get to them, in the order he needs
to do them, just kind of getting himself organizedon how he’s wanting to work. he’s going to start by putting in this padding and gettingeverything ready to put the seat in and shoot it down. he’s shooting on the thumb rollright there. that helps hold the roll for the arms to pull it out. he shoots that onand you’ll see in a little bit when he puts the rubber on that just helps give a littlemore of a roll for it and lets the panel set down in there. now he’s getting his actualseat out that covers everything. it covers the actual springs and everything. he’sgoing to get it shot down so he can pull his back tight and put his fiber and poly on it.this is the very first thing that you need to do when you’re actually building a piece.that’s the first part that an insider does
on almost every piece. you start with theseat. and he’s having to go around and cut around each rail so there’s no pulls inthe denim or anything; he’s having to make individual cuts in certain places so thatyou don’t have puckers in your denim. and it goes around each individual rail. mark’spretty fast, he’ll do it faster than most people will and he’s very smooth. that’sa pretty important thing to do in upholstering. you need to be pretty smooth and he’s realsmooth. he’s just trying to pull the denim tight so that once the cushion’s set downin there, it doesn’t stretch it out and get all wrinkled up and look bad. now he’sgoing to use his 2 inch staple gun and shoot down the seat rope. the seat rope, that’swhat gives the seat a nice roll so the cushions
don’t slide straight out. now he’s goingto put his padding on over top of that and glue it down so it’s nice and soft. he’strying to make sure that when he rolls that over he keeps it pretty even and smooth soit doesn’t get any bumps under the seat. you want to keep it real smooth and straight.now he’s trying to line up the grain, make sure the grain stays straight down when hepulls it. you don’t want the grain to be leaning or anything like that. if you pulltoo hard in one direction, it’ll start leaning and look bad. when you have the cushions ontop of it, it will look even worse with the cushions straight and the seat leaning. thisseat sticks out like that so it has a panel that goes down through here that brings everythingout and fills it up so he can shoot it down
through there and the staples not show. thepanels will cover that. he’s just trying to pull that seat, keep all the grain as tightas he can, because if you look at that seat, it has a pretty heavy grain on it. and youcan see it’s not really a stripe, it’s just the actual grain of the piece. now he’sgoing to get his arm poly and that’s silicone so that whenever he gets ready to stick thepoly underneath it, in between the arms and the springs, it slides easier for him. buthe’s going to take the arm poly and put it on to where he has the proper roll. youhave to make sure that the roll’s proper around through here so that the panel willfit. he’s got to shoot it on the proper way all the way around. and you have to shootit on very smoothly with your staple gun.
he’s going to pull it back and then whenhe shoots underneath of it, he has to make sure that he gets the staples pretty closeand smooth all the way across so there’s not lumps all along the bottom of the polybecause it’s so you can feel it in the actual arm whenever he has it. there’s a lot ofdifferent ways, a lot of people won’t upholster the exact same way, but generally you do alot of the same stuff. he’s trying to cut off that excess right there in the back ofthat arm. you cut off that excess so it doesn’t get in the way when they actually put theoutside back on it and trim it out; so that’s why you cut that excess off. there is wherehe’s trying to keep the bottom of that arm smooth. he cut off all this so when they dothe actual trim to the outside back it’s
smooth, there’s nothing in the way. nowhe’s going to get his arms out and actually start upholstering the arms on it. he’sseparating everything now so that he doesn’t have to go back and forth. this is a productionjob. he’s trying to stay with a kind of smooth rhythm so he can keep going. we havea certain roll that we have to keep when that welt goes around and he’s trying to keepit the same all the way around so the arm looks symmetrical all the way around. nowhe’s got to make the cuts around each individual rail so that there’s no pull or anythingaround the rails and it doesn’t pucker up and cause the fabric to wrinkle up. he’strying to pull it down smooth, keep his grain straight again, and start getting it tight.now he’s going to lay the pleats in, each individual pleat.
different pieces take different pleats, differentnumber of pleats, and again if it’s a heavy grain like this, you have to keep it straightto where the grain lines up a little bit and looks fairly smooth. now he’s going to trimall that out of the way so when they put the panel on that extra isn’t in the way. nowhe’s going to pull the bottom of this arm tight. then he has to tuck it down and aroundthat back and try to keep that smooth as he comes around the back part. he’s just tackingdown the bottom of the arm now, trying to keep it as smooth as he can so it doesn’tshow any puckers or lumps. he’s shooting a trim line right now for the trimmer so theycan just lay their arm up there and their cardboard and cardboard through there so theydon’t have to push real hard to go through
it. now he’s going to get started on hisinside back and he’s going to pad the whole back, that’s called top back poly, it’sjust a little extra padding for the very top part of the back so when you actually touchit it’s a little bit more padded. and then this is the actual fiber that covers the entireinside back. he’ll get it shot down to where, whenever he comes back, he’s just toenailingthat on there so that whenever he pulls his back down, this will lap over and it keepsit real smooth so he’s just toenailing that on there for right now. so he can actuallypull it and roll it over when he rolls his back. he’s going to cut his fiber aroundthat and get it to where it’s smooth, tuck it around the rail so if you reach your handin there you won’t feel any wood. you’ll
just feel the fiber padding it. now this isthe inside back material and he’s going to try to keep it, he’s going to even itup on each side and get it to where the grain on the back is even and smooth. and he’sjust tacking it in place now so he can go around and make all of his cuts. the cutswill be in each corner and around all the rails. there’s a rail right there and he’ssealing for the rail in the back and then cutting it around it. now there’s a railhere and he’s cutting around the arm. he’s got to tuck it between the arm and the bottomof the seat. as he tucks that on the bottom, he’s going to come in and cut it right thereon the edge. you don’t want to cut it too deep or else you’ll be able to see all hefiber and everything behind it. and he’s
going to roll that piece under and pull itout the bottom also so that it will be nice and tight under there. he’s going to tackdown the bottom of the seat and the bottom of the back and shoot it to the seat and shootit inside. and that’s all the part that will be covered up. now he’s going to makehis corner cut right there to make sure that it comes around nice and smooth. he startsright in the middle to keep his grain as straight as he possibly can and then pull it straightacross. this is from the edge so he can wrap the corner around and actually tighten itdown. and then it takes one pleat right on top and he’ll pull it up and work that extramaterial in so it covers up the material inside the pleat. and while he’s doing all that,he’s trying to keep that grain as straight
as possible across the top of that back. thenhe’s shooting everything down inside there so it’s not in the way of the outside upholsterers.he’s trying to pull it down and pull it as tight as he can around the bottom and stillkeep it smooth so that you can’t really get your hands up inside there and pull anythingloose. you want it as nice and tight and smooth as possible. he’s going to put all thatextra fabric right inside that pleat and then smooth the rest of it out. and he then shootsdown the rest of the pulls he’s got through there to pull everything tight and then shootit up and get it out of the way. now he’s actually done doing the inside upholsteryon it and now he’s going to take and sign his ticket so they know who did it. he putshis name right there and puts everything back
in it, lays the cushions in it, and gets itready to go. then he’s going to pull the actual pay ticket off the piece, that’sthe way we get paid, as each piece has a ticket and it pays a certain amount and he’s goingto pull his ticket off the piece right now. that’s what we have to do on every pieceafter we upholster, we pull our pay ticket, sign the piece, and set it off and then takeit down to be inspected. matt harrisi am an upholsterer trimmer and what an upholster trimmer’s job is to put on the outside partsof the furniture such as the backs or the outside arms of pieces like over here. itwould be easier to explain it on this one. what we do is, we close up the insider’swork, we put on the inside arms or outside
arms and the outside backs which is prettymuch, you have to put on fiber or cardboard and shoot all of that on, pull it down tight.here, i started off; this was not on here at all. i had to go in and put webbing, there’swebbing under this like this right here. this is webbing. this is basically to keep it fromcollapsing if it gets pushed into anything. and the fiber goes on top of that which isto pad the piece out, make it look more tailored. then we have to put on the outside back here.we shot the cardboard down to hold it on. we use staple guns, needle-nose pliers, staple-pullers,maul to tack strips when you have to put tack strips in here like where i’ve got to onthis one, i’d have to pull this back around now, set it up, pull this tight, flip it up,get my tack stripping. i’ve done a lot of
these pieces so i already know where i needto cut my tack strip. so i basically cut, then cut the ends off. this is a pretty goodleather to work with. always get your corners set at top, line it up straight with yourcardboard. that’s why i shot this corner first because whenever i pull this, it keepsmy seam on the edge. i can’t pull it off the edge. some people don’t like to pullleather, i like to pull it, keep it tighter. it’s a little different than working withfabric. i love working with my hands, i like to feel like i’m creating something thatsomebody else is going to use. there’s a sense of pride in building something. somebodyelse is actually going to see that piece of furniture and they’re going to have to havethat piece of furniture, knowing that you
had a hand in building that furniture.