Protoni's work diary - removing the old upholstery from armchair

Well then. Now I will tell you about my friend's armchair upholstery project. Lets start this with telling about the removing the old upholstery.

The screws that hold the back and the seat to the armchair frame were removed already when that armchair came to my friend. There is not so much to do the armchair frame. One small crack must clue, clean the dust and splatters and light treatment with the finishing oil. Most of the detritions are at the armrest but they will let stay like they are. You don't need to always remove the old finishing surface and make new one.

There revealed to be a nice suprise from the armchair back when under the worn out blue fabrick was discover the original fabrick. The color of original fabrick was light but you could see the original darker green color from the detached button places and the lower back part which attach to the seat. Can you find these parts from the photo? There came to be a nice decision to save the original fabrick beneath the new fabrick. Between the old and new fabrick will be unbleached muslin to give some cover to the original fabrick. The decision to save the original was because of the fabrick was not so worn out and the backing board under the fabrick didn't feel like it would be damaged or loose. The original fabrick shall give some astonishing moment to next upholsterer.

From the seat there was fillings like thin and thick burlap, needled felt, coir and linen webbing. Inside the seat was also a spring system named epeda. And what exactly is epeda? Epeda is a spring system that has been stopped making. It has two metal frames and between them there has been coiled springs together. Well from that epeda sure is a bit hard to find information. And there is some thinking work to my friend what should she do with it. It would be nice to preserve the old parts. However you can se by your eyes and felt when you sit from that epeda that in the places where your butt sit the springs has been loosed and sank a bit compared to other areas of epeda. Now then should she leave the epeda away and place whole new springs to the armschair or should she leave the epeda inside the armchair and try to tie the loosed springs or should she try to replace the loosed springs with the new wire?
 
This was my  prattles at this time. Later I will tell about the reupholstery of that armchair.
See you next time
-Protoni

The armchair like the way it came to my friend.

The back's original fabrick.

The epeda.