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": "Hi, I own an upholstery shop.  "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I do as well, In fact the word \"upholstery\" comes from the English word \"upholder\",Which is used because tradesman who held up his goods."}, {"role": "user", "content": "There are so many uses for upholstery."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "yes and most materials like coil springs, animal hair, coir, straw and hay, hessians, linen is all done by hand. Nowadays we do it by machine. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I prefer the craftsmanship of doing it by hand but machines are so much more efficient.  When did upholstery start?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well it dates back to the 18th-century in London, Where upholsterers served interior decorators responsible for all aspects of a room's decor."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow, that is interesting.  When did machines get their start in the industry?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well no one truly knows when, But some say it started around the industrial revolution when sewing machines were getting more popular. "}]