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": "assistant", "content": "I need new upholstery for my furniture."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Interesting! Do you like leather or fabric and do you have pets?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I like leather upholstery because it looks nice. I have a dog that sits on the floor only."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Tell him \"good dog\" for me.  Leather is great, but I have cats so no leather in my house."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Cats like all types of upholstery."}, {"role": "user", "content": "So true.  Is your furniture sturdy and well made, or is it getting a bit shaky?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You used the word \"shaky\" for furniture - it reminded me of a song \"shaky shaky\"."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Cool.  I think I remember that one.  Why not just buy all new furniture?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I only need upholstery since the couch was given by my dead grandparents."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Okay.  The internet should provide local upholstery shops and you can get some estimates."}]