Re: Upholstery Repair
Posted by HH56 On 2016/2/16 11:13:55
As others said, it is some kind of heavy material slightly over 1/16 thick-- it has a sheen on one side like maybe it was the same tar or asphalt coated material they used in other places to cover openings. It was held on by carpet tacks that are slightly longer than those used for the windlace placed along the outer edge and driven into a tack strip. I am thinking there was possibly a dab of adhesive on the very bottom and top ends.
The body has a section where the heavy compressed cardboard tacking strips are clamped in a body channel. Windlace has already been attached to the strip so it is not visible in the photo. It appears tacks were first placed in the curved upholstery cardboard and then cotton padding was laid on top of the heads and fabric on top of that. Fabric edge was glued on rear side of cardboard and there was also a thin jute type padding on the rear side. Whole thing was probably installed by hammering against some kind of block laying over the fabric and placed directly over the tack heads so nothing is damaged.
My pieces were torn, dried, shriveled and generally in too bad a condition to reuse so made new by cutting them out of the water resistant door cardboard. That cardboard is a bit thicker than the original. Am going to try and mount the same way but if not secure enough in the old tack strip I may also use some adhesive and even some doublestick tape.
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The body has a section where the heavy compressed cardboard tacking strips are clamped in a body channel. Windlace has already been attached to the strip so it is not visible in the photo. It appears tacks were first placed in the curved upholstery cardboard and then cotton padding was laid on top of the heads and fabric on top of that. Fabric edge was glued on rear side of cardboard and there was also a thin jute type padding on the rear side. Whole thing was probably installed by hammering against some kind of block laying over the fabric and placed directly over the tack heads so nothing is damaged.
My pieces were torn, dried, shriveled and generally in too bad a condition to reuse so made new by cutting them out of the water resistant door cardboard. That cardboard is a bit thicker than the original. Am going to try and mount the same way but if not secure enough in the old tack strip I may also use some adhesive and even some doublestick tape.
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