. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. r or figured goods is laid over cottonbatting intervening and tacked carefully to the rabbett on theoutside of the framing, over which is neatly stretched gimp tomatch the material. When a corner is turned, lap the gimpwhile stretching it, so that it strikes the corner with a good miter. UPHOLSTERY 299 The custom is so general to use quite large metal or leather-headed tacks as a border finish, that care should be used toevenly space them and have the corner button hold down themiter neatly. The back of the chair is usually
. Furniture for the craftsman; a manual for the student and machanic. r or figured goods is laid over cottonbatting intervening and tacked carefully to the rabbett on theoutside of the framing, over which is neatly stretched gimp tomatch the material. When a corner is turned, lap the gimpwhile stretching it, so that it strikes the corner with a good miter. UPHOLSTERY 299 The custom is so general to use quite large metal or leather-headed tacks as a border finish, that care should be used toevenly space them and have the corner button hold down themiter neatly. The back of the chair is usually covered with thesame goods, but may have a cheaper grade of the same toneneatly tacked on the rabbett and lined with gimp. To hide theunsightly webbing on the bottom of the chair, tack, with edgesfolded, a piece of chintz of suitable color, hiding all the roughedges on the rails. The spring and wire illustrated in Fig. 297 is used in later-dayupholstering, the wire taking the place of the webbing. Thisstyle of creating a spring foundation is coming into great favor. Webbin3 Fig. 296.—Showing Usual Method of Upholstering. for its general simplicity and is well adapted for square framessuch as Morris chairs, settees and built-in hall seats. The scal-loped wires shown cross each other at the base of the spring, ahalf spring being used. The wires aresold indifferent lengths,bent with a crook at each end, as partly shown in the cut, havinga sharp point which is driven into the top of the seat rail. As anextra precaution a stout staple should be tacked over the will be seen that with the peculiar shaping of the wire thesprings, when placed and secured by a similar intersecting wire, 300 FURNITURE FOR THE CRAFTSMAN occupy about the same level as though the webbing were tackedon the bottom of the rail. In a chair all that is necessary is tocross diagonally two of these formed wires of proper length, sothat the points are driven into each corner block, then screw into catch th
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