Category Archives: Confessions of an Upholsterer

The process, education, trials and tribulations of an upholsterer authored by Tessa Cooper.

Oh, the Tools of Our Lives…

Upholsterers use a number of tools that are highly specialized and unique to the trade. In this post we’d like to share with you a few of our favorite tools that we use on a daily basis. First, Max, the love of our lives … our favorite pneumatic staple gun. What makes Max so special to [...]
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Confessions of an Upholstery Fledgling: How Things Have Changed

Changing jobs is always a big transition, especially when you go from an office job to physical trade work as an upholsterer. Now in my fourth month of work at Spruce, I feel very comfortable in the new environment and can look back on my old job with a sense of humor about how things [...]
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Pimp My Apron

So one of the things that made me most excited about my new job at Spruce was that I got to wear an apron all day. As a long time collector of different aprons, this was a dream come true to sport one all day at work. On my first day, I was able to [...]
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Confessions of an Upholstery Fledgling

So it finally happened. I knew it would eventually as it has happened to all the other girls here at Spruce. And it is only fitting that my “initiation” into upholstery would happen only three days after my apprenticeship ended and midway through my first week of real production. I stapled my finger. This was something [...]
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Confessions of an Upholstery Apprentice 1

Tessa Cooper as her sugar paste self CONFESSION #1 So after six years of working in public relations, event planning and production, and finally advertising, I found myself not really liking the marketing world. Oddly, it took doing what my degree was in, advertising, to realizing this line of work was not for me. I remember telling [...]
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