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": "What kind of fabrics do you use in your upholstry? "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I like leather or suede.  what about you?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I like to use fire-retardant fabrics, as they are naturally more resistant to fire than those made through chemical treatments"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Thats interesting.  what other type of fabrics do you like"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I also like fire-safe polymers, as there is quite a need for fabrics like these to be used in tight spaces, such as boats and airplane cabins"}, {"role": "user", "content": "so what else can you tell me about this?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Many small molecules (monomers) make up a polymer. They can be both natural and synthetic. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hmmm what is a polymer?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "a polymer is a large molecule, also known as a macromolecule, made up of many repeated subunits. Polymers are essential to everyday life. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hmm.. well I learned something new"}]