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Thirteen questions about how your workshop actually runs. About three minutes.

Anonymous. No name, no email address, nothing that identifies you or your business. Answer what you are comfortable with — only the first five are required, and a partial answer is still useful.

Results are published at State of the Trade and are free for anyone to cite.

Where do you work? *

What currency do you charge in? * Rates are compared within a currency, never converted.

How long have you worked in upholstery? *

How is the business set up? *

Where do you work from? *

Your hourly or shop rate In the currency above. Leave blank if you never work to an hourly figure.

How do you price a job?

What do you mark fabric up by?

Bench hours: wing-back, full traditional rebuild Stripped to the frame and rebuilt — webbing, springs, hair, stitched edges. Not a re-cover.

Bench hours: wing-back, modern re-cover The same chair stripped and rebuilt in foam and modern materials.

Current lead time

Which work is most profitable for you?

Do you turn work away for lack of capacity?

Every chapter, on the bench beside you.

This whole reference is free and always will be — but a screen is a poor thing in a dusty workshop. The Working Upholsterer’s Bible is the same 35 chapters and 72 figures in a wiro-bound A4 edition that lies flat on the bench and takes a thumbprint without complaint. Written by a working AMUSF-accredited upholsterer, thirty years in.

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