i own a custom upholstery shop.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Upholstery is the work of providing furniture, especially seats, with padding, springs, webbing, and fabric or leather covers. The word \"upholstery\" comes from the Middle English word \"upholder\", which referred to a tradesman who held up his goods. The term is equally applicable to domestic, automobile, airplane and boat furniture, and can be applied to mattresses, particularly the upper layers, though these often differ significantly in design. A person who works with upholstery is called an upholsterer; an apprentice upholsterer is sometimes called an outsider or trimmer. Traditional upholstery uses materials like coil springs (post-1850), animal hair (horse, hog and cow), coir, straw and hay, hessians, linen scrims, wadding, etc., and is done by hand, building each layer up. In contrast, modern upholsterers employ synthetic materials like dacron and vinyl, serpentine springs, and so on. \"Upholder\" is an archaic term used for \"upholsterer\", but it appears to have a connotation of \"repairing\" furniture rather than creating new upholstered pieces from scratch (cobbler vs. cordwainer). In 18th-century London, upholders frequently served as interior decorators responsible for all aspects of a room's decor.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What even is upholstery? "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It is the covers of furniture.  This includes the padding, springs and fabric"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ahh okay, that's kinda what I thought it was."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The word actually comes from the Middle English.  It means upholder"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That makes a lot of sense as to the root of it."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Upholstry has changed a bit in modern times.  It often uses sythetic material like vinyl and acron"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That outta be a lot cheaper and easier to produce."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I would imagine it is much easier.  Earlier times it was all done by hand, each layer, using straw, hay, linen, etc"}]