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Finishes and Fabrics: Detailing with Nails and Tacks

Finishes and Fabrics: Detailing with Nails and Tacks

Types of upholstery nails have been used for furniture finishing for at least 500 years. Historically, brass, iron alloy or copper alloy domed nail...

Technique Spotlight : Stitched Edge Roll

A time honoured traditional upholstery technique, the stitched edge roll refers to all stuffed and stitched edging profiles. An edge roll creates t...

Master Craftspeople : Howard & Sons

Howard & Sons are known to be the most brilliant upholstered furniture makers of their time, and their designs continue to be excellent example...

Finishes and Fabrics : An Introduction to Upholstery Fabrics

An introduction to upholstery fabrics, what to look for, different fabric types you may come across, and a mention of the sustainable and ethical i...

Technique Spotlight : French Mattress Stitching

So much of traditional upholstery is about stitching techniques, and we’d like to share with you the special process of French mattress stitching. ...

Finishes and Fabrics : Fringes

Fringes can be great fun and can completely change the look of your furniture. We’ve recently seen some highly sophisticated, and really bold trims...

L-Shaped blog : Our new collection, and an insightful Q&A

Our colleagues over at Lorfords Antiques have been very supportive of our new collection, with an article discussing the new collaborative range, a...

Lorfords Contemporary x Turner Pocock Collection

We are delighted to announce our new collaborative furniture collection, created with respected London designers Turner Pocock.Toby Lorford has wor...

Our New Name : Lorfords Contemporary

A new year and a new direction for our luxury furniture and upholstery business: from January 2021 Lorfords Created will change its name to Lorford...

We're Hiring

We're hoping for even more growth this year despite the current national circumstances, and we would love to find another talented upholsterer to j...

Christmas Inspiration

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone here at Lorfords Created. Here's some festive inspiration from our collection... We will be cl...

Fermoie : A Collaboration

Read about the bespoke armchair we made especially for Fermoie to showcase their beautiful new Astrea fabric collection. We share with Fermoie a co...

Rose and Fiona - Lorfords Created new team members

Some Exciting News

With our lovely General Manager, Nasia, starting her maternity leave we have some exciting changes to announce at Lorfords Created.