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Style, Stitch, Staple combines straightforward upholstery techniques with advice on choosing and styling fabrics to help the design-savvy reader transform even the most dilapidated furniture into gorgeous updated pieces. Packed full of fabric advice, yardage charts, upholstery tutorials, and case studies that feature salvaged and inexpensive furniture, this book is the perfect go-to-guide for the many sewers, designers, artists, and creative...

Beginning with an easy-to-use guide to identifying and dating your furniture, there follows a directory of all the tools, materials, and equipment you will need. The techniques cover surfaces and finishes, chairs, tables, and chests and cabinets. Whether you want to remove a scratch from a veneered tabletop or repair a broken cabriole leg, you will find all you need to know described in straightforward, no-nonsense language. Each of the four chapters...

..".will help with decorating what has become another room of the home, the garden....clearly written instructions for various projects featuring useful garden objects from castoffs--wind chimes from cutlery, fountains from old buckets--as well as recommendations for plants suited to her container items. The finished projects are shown in color photographs....suited for public libraries."--"Library Journal. "A more creative approach to junk transformation...

Presenting hundreds of original ideas and offering solutions to classic problems, this invaluable book shows how to make the best, most stylish use of affordable spaces.