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​Monday Wash Furniture Blog

Gamechanger: Spotlight on Louise Cornick of Upholstery Education and Sitting Pretty Upholstery Services

2/11/2021
Until very recently, it was virtually impossible, in this country, to learn traditional methods from a Master upholsterer. Enter Louise Cornick, an incredibly charismatic and resourceful upholstery-loving woman not inclined to take no for an answer... 

Click here to read the full article on the National Upholstery Association website.
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Bending the Box: Educator Spotlight on Cynthia Bleskachek of the Funky Little Chair

11/18/2020
Cynthia Bleskachek doesn’t just think outside the box. She takes the box apart and does origami with it.
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Let’s start there. With the box. I’m referring here not to the art of upholstery which, as Cynthia points out, always involves out-of-the box thinking. Because each piece is different, upholsterers are naturally nimble problem solvers when it comes to repairing and transforming furniture. The box in which we find ourselves trapped, as Cynthia sees it, is our industry structure (or “shared infrastructure”) which has become disjointed and dysfunctional, leaving gaping pot holes on the path to success and security for current and future generations of would-be upholsterers...

Click here to read the full article on the National Upholstery Association website.

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The Ties that Bind: Spotlight on Susan Woodcock of Workroom Tech

9/11/2020

​Sewing is all about connection, about binding pieces together to make a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. As I listen to Susan Woodcock, owner of The Custom Workroom Training Center (a.k.a. Workroom Tech) in North Carolina, tell her story, it is clear that she was born to sew...
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​Please click the link below to read the full article  on the National Upholstery Association website:


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nationalupholsteryassociation.org/news-blog/9228436
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The Art of Revival: An Interview with Glenn Quezada of GQ Interior

8/5/2020
This is a story of promise.
Glenn Quezada has an artist’s eye and heart. An artist’s hands. They probably look like his father’s hands, and his uncle’s, and his cousins’ and brothers’ - all of them upholsterers in Honduras and the United States...

Please click the link below to read the full article on the National Upholstery Association website.
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https://nationalupholsteryassociation.org/news-blog/9147448
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Educator Spotlight: Kim Chagnon of Kim's Upholstery

6/29/2020
I like stories.
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Let me tell you a good one. 
A while back, around Christmas time, a gifted upholsterer was working in her shop when a man came in from the cold... 

Please click the link below to view the full article on the National Upholstery Association Website.

​​https://nationalupholsteryassociation.org/news-blog/9068065
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    In addition to her own blog, Monica Rhodes currently writes for the National Upholstery Association at:
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