This is a one day seminar designed for those wishing to set up an upholstery or soft furnishings business, whether it be from your home or a designated workroom.
We will discuss any problems and issue you may have and the legal requirements in setting up a business, so as to make it as easy and pain free as possible. We will cover:
- Terms & Conditions
- Estimates, Quotations & Invoices
- Overheads & Costings
- Insurance Requirements
- Self-Employment: Tax, NI & VAT implications & Record Keeping
- Legal Requirements: Premises, Planning Permission, Waste Disposal etc
- Health & Safety issues including Fire Risk Assessments
- Consumer Law
- Fabric Identification & Composition
- Fire Regulations relating to domestic furniture and soft furnishings
- Workroom equipment and industrial sewing machines
- Setting Up Trade Accounts
- Trade Associations & Codes of Practice
- Other Sources of Information
1-Day Course 9.30 to 4 p.m. - £89 per day including a light lunch
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 Learn how to make your own professional looking interlined curtains with Triple Pleat heading. You will learn how to measure windows and estimate fabric and trimmings and to calculate pleats and spaces.
1-Day Course - £109 including all materials.
New Courses in the Autumn
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 Learn how to make your own hand-sewn interlined Roman Blinds. You will learn how to calculate pleat spacings for standard pleated blind. We will discuss the various batten and track systems and the different borders, braids and trimmings that can be used to enhance your blinds.
1-Day Course - £124 including all materials.
New Courses in the Autumn
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 These courses are ideal for upholsterers and soft furnishers. Using a mix of yarns and colour you will learn how to spin your own cords for creating piping cords, bullion fringe and tassels. The things you make can be used on chairs and sofas, cushions, tie-backs, the edges and pleats of curtains, pelmets, blind and light pulls. Ideal when colour matching is crucial to your work.
2-Day Multiple Mould Tassels Course - £178 plus materials which will be weighed at the end of the course.
Monday 18th & Tuesday 19th August 2008 - 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Please bring scissors, assorted knitting needles, Evostick/Bostick/Uhu glue, tape measure, note book, pen, camera and a hand drill and wire snips if you have them.
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 Learn how to strip out old cane work, how to prepare the frame for caning, six-way cane pattern, finishing, beading and pegging. The course will also cover a brief history of caning and adaptations for various seat shapes.
2-Day Course - £178 plus materials which will be charged for on a basis of what is used (approx. £20 per chair).
Please bring a suitable chair for caning, hammer, scissors, pliers and any golf tees you may have.
Thursday 31st July & Friday 1st August 2008
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 Work on your own furniture at your own pace. No experience necessary.
5-Day Course - £475 plus materials charged for on a basis of what you use
Monday 4th to Friday 8th August 2008
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All courses are 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily and include a light lunch. Please advise any special dietary requirements or special needs.
Please bring a sewing kit or tool box (if you have one), a camera to record your work, a notebook and pen.
Places are limited and bookings are subject to availability. A £20 per day, non-refundable deposit payment is required to secure your place, with the balance payable one month prior to the start of the course.
All prices are inclusive of 17.5% VAT
The fees are non-refundable. If cancelled 1-4 weeks before the course start date, 50% of the fee will be refundable. If cancelled with 5 working days of the start date, the fee in non-refundable but we will offer a 50% discount if the course is re-booked within one year.
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