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 type of upholstery do you like?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I really like rich leather upholstery. The word upholstery comes from the Middle English word \"upholder\" which refers to a tradesmen who held up his own goods."}, {"role": "user", "content": "wow thats neat.  Leather is probably my favorite as well.  Although leather seats in a car in the summer can be quite hot!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, definitely hot in the summer. Upholstery can also refer to furniture as well as car seats."}, {"role": "user", "content": "We had to cover our furniture with seat covers b/c our dogs were tearing our upholstery that was covering it."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You could always take it to an upholsterer which is someone who specializes in reupolstering."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, my grandma had some old antique chairs she had reupholstered.  They turned out beautiful"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Back in the 1800s, they actually upholstered items with animal hair, coir, straw and hay and did it by hand!"}]