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": "Upholstery involves providing furniture and padding"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I would love to know how to do that!  What else do you know about it/"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Webbing and fabric covers are common products"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It seems like almost an art form - where did it orginate?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "An upholstery expert and user is an upholsterer. I'm not sure when it originated"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Do they go to school or a trade school to learn the trade of being an upholsterer?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "An apprentice is sometimes called an outsider or a trimmer"}, {"role": "user", "content": "So that's how they learn them, they have to do some sort of internship to learn from someone who already knows how?"}]