Deep Buttoned Footstool Workshop – Sunday 4th October 2026

Date:  Sunday 4th October 2026

Venue: The Hub Community Centre, Pownall Road, Altrincham WA14 2SZ 

Duration: Full-day workshop from 9.30am – 5.30pm

Hello Upholstery lovers!!

So good to see that you've made it this far in your upholstery workshop research! Our deep buttoned footstool workshop is a hands-on session where you bring along 2 metres of fabric of your choice, and we'll teach you how to upholster a deep buttoned footstool from scratch using various materials and techniques. The workshop aims to provide you with the knowledge and skills which are transferable to other areas of upholstery, and needed to design and finish a wonderful stool for you to take away with you on the day. 

Workshop Outline:

Introduction to the Day: Discussion and explanation around how we’re going to upholster the stool

Safety Guidelines: Important safety precautions while working with tools and materials

Materials and Tools: Introduction to the materials used (e.g., wood, webbing, hessian, fabric)

Design and Planning: Discussing different design options and measuring and planning the fabric cuts required for stool

Hands-on Practice: It’s over to you with help from us, guidance and support from team TUL throughout the upholstery process

Finalising the Stool: Adding the footstool feet and giving the stool a once over to make sure we’re all happy with the final product.

Workshop sizes: We’re keeping the workshops small with a maximum of 6 people.  Upholstering a deep buttoned footstool is quite a lot to get through in one day, so we want to be on hand to assist and bring maximum enjoyment to the day.

The size of the footstool frame is 30” x 40”.

We look forward to welcoming you to a creative day and we promise, we will not let you leave the workshop until your footstool has passed the TUL quality check – you’ll be walking away with a piece of furniture to be proud of, and hopefully the bug to get creative!!

Leanne x