The drop seats continue

I have finished the first drop seat to calico! Yay! Here is it is in situ. My friend still needs to pick her fabric and then i will finish it off by covering in that, but the calico will do till then. I quite like it plain. So how did it get to this stage? Well here is where we left off. 

I had finished the webbing and filled the wooden frame.

The underside of the frame.

I covered the webbing in hessian.

Then i sewed the rubberised horsehair in place...

before covering with wadding...

and finally stretching the calico over the lot.

Trimmed and neatened.

And back where it should be!