Table Of ContentTHE COMPLETE PHOTO GUIDE TO
Sleee
Transform Your
~~ Furniture with Fitted
or Casual Covers
Edited by Linda Neubauer
The Complete Photo Guide to
Slipcovers
The Complete Photo Guide to
Slipcovers
Transform Your Furniture with
Classic or Casual Covers
EDITED BY LINDA NEUBAUER
Contents
Furniture Facel (ts
7 Choosing the Right Fabric
1 Reversiole Seat Cover
VW Kitchen and Dining Chairs
25 Parsons Chair
S| ottoman
57 Fitted Cavers for Upholstered
Furniture
Wing Chair
73 Futon Cover
8 Caybed cover
27 Direelers Chair
95 Garcen choir
10) OL wweer Chee
108 Sliocover Basics
12 terms to Know
Furniture
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chair. upholstered in an elegant jsenard fab
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cheert. rostautie appearance move surable
fora costs bedroom, Cumarched pieces
youve soquired at tales or eecondlaed shops
‘am be slipeuveced in matching or eeordinat~
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your Favor earl as fem paeding
and a siunly Leu, a ited sipeoves isa geeat
alternative to rewoaolstery. Hugging tae chair
like a glove. a fice slipeover gives the etaie
new life ishout charging its identity. ame with,
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sgvea for many ofthe projects. For some slip~
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Choosing the
Right Fabric
he pyan cence fabri
foryonr
slipcovers, oonaiden wh
sant the furninare sa havin she roo,
Wile estar ard design play wn éroporcans part
inthe devin, itinalan imgo-tant 0 se
er the Iibereonest weave iruells aad any
uke wreanes applied the lb
You should make pur sipenvers will eves
toe Kain, These ies Fru leno, Eabsioe
several say, Dewucilas ahiss ace pener-
ally wore durable Usa Kissin Fabrivs, Oe.
ey ate rete will slvin-resistanh
erease-resistaut Finish, Por tis reson, aust
lesoraton abies ms be dry cleaned eather
‘hay aundered especially i portant fu sip
savers because Sarinkage can be dieastious,
Unlike fashiou fabrics, deeoratar facies wih
designs are priated as wien to match fros
one salvage ro the nest, 60 thst 3p neo
eam in large pincos are lese wstble, The fab~
se desis
abel gives the measnreaent
ofthe patrosx repease, The verical repeat
the distance sp andl down between peouts
whore the yatters repeats tel The hosizon-
tal repeat is often given als, expecially For
lager peims This informa on ie necessary
fos determin:ng the smennt of fahrin needed
fos asipeover, Lange motifs im a patcern sar
hecentered on oushion taps wx botlunen
hie hasks, and aris, deel. patlera
sayuld Mow Gaalecrupted (coun the lg to tbe
boltaas ul tbe slipoover,
vale ofa print is alsu a important eon
sideration, Large privat my
‘smal ehaieslipenvcs, just ae ting all-ave
peinte can get last on lange safe allpeoes
Tym wart to ane severe] pina an the ame:
relees conrdinating prints various
sizes, and add solid golor accents
Falerivs oat be geo ged iui eateries
accunliug Wu dheir weave ur surlave design,
Poin weaves (1) ave the
ples ef weaves
‘They may be solid inwolys ue printed. ane
Ucir strength is determined by te closeness
‘af the yarna in the weave, Satin weaves (3) ane
woven sa that yarns natn the sufase. giv
Performance fabrics intended for use outdoor:
look and feat like interior decorator
fabrics and are available in came of the same prints and calars.
ing the fabriea eubrle sheen. They alsa may 36
solid.an color or printed, Januar weaves 3).
snoloding damask, tapestries, and brovades,
have woven-un designs, Bovelly weaves (4)
often siigle eulurs, Jeavure lesluralialeresl
eceated by completed weave patuerns. ‘These
labvive ne very vesatile aay color sebeane
Vike Sabries
chenille, have interesting sucface lesbares,
|. such sue, esduryys and
ecocator fabvies forthe interior are ofa
‘rate of netaral fibers, which inehade potton,
Linens, and wal, Sarre thers are
brrecihable, erafurtable, apd easy Lo se
Un
tunately. these Labrie don't perfurm
very weillbr porches, cansvoms, or eutdvors
Tu keep ag wita the steoag Leu wna ou
our decorating, namulaclurers are su mals
ing waer-repella,Fadence
tant, auryliv ur
plyester decorator fries thal look an fee
like interine farce. They are enlow fast nd
are treated 16 rosie stains and mildew
