How To Sew Tuck & Roll Upholstery | Traditional | Cotton Stuffed
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- In this upholstery tutorial I will show you how to make original cotton stuffed tuck and roll pleats! Just like you would see in your favorite classic car. We are going to be making two inch tuck n roll pleats and we will be filling them with cotton batting. This is just one of the many styles of tuck & roll. This one is more traditional because we don’t use any foam.
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This is the method Rolls Royce used, from 1910 up through 1993 to make their pleats. In 1994 the bankers came in, and they started doing them like a chevy camaro. Put a flat sheet of leather on top of a sheet of 1/2" scrim foam, and running lines of top stitching to make the lines. Same year they quit using piping for their edges as well, and just left the stitching visible on the edges. Now the cars are 20 years old, the foam has disintegrated and the "pleats" are fallen flat, just loose wrinkled leather with dusty foam residue inside. Meanwhile, the 1910 car still has it's leather seats looking and feeling great after 110 years.
Good work… My mother always said, you gotta have want to… have you considered trying using one flat piece of aluminum, about four or even 5 inches wide and rolling your cotton batting lengthwise before you lay it on the aluminum and then rolling the aluminum over the top of it nice and tight to make it slide easily into the channels or tubes… And then letting it go and pulling it out… It would bundle up the cotton tight and then when you let it go after you get it all the way into the tube, when you release it, it will loosen it up enough to pull the aluminum out and leave the cotton in and then fill up your tube nice and firm… I haven’t tried it myself, but it might be worth trying. It seems like it would be easier to get your cotton packed down so that it will have a nice dense filling in the tubes.❣️ I’m considering doing tuck n roll in my 1962 mercury Monterey convertible… I have upholstered antique fan back chairs (a stuffed rolled back) years past.. and they turned out nice and firm. Cotton does pack down after a while. I think if I do it also I will omit the extra 1/4” on the Muslim and just stitch it at the 2 inch mark. Also, you could try stitching or bringing the tubes together by overlapping them on each seam at the top and the bottom when you stitch down the final stitching, on the top and the bottom. in other words, take the difference of slack in each tube and bring it together at the seam point where the extra is divided up evenly on each seam… Rather than just overlapping one way do it both ways on each seam?
Thanks for a well explained video, you convinced me to not try this but it was very interesting.
love yur work great instructions thank you🎉
You are a dying breed. Beautiful work! Nice machine by the way!
You answered so many questions that I had about using cotton batting in this style of pleating.
the instruction on loading the cotton and adjusting the the ends of the pleats for the seam allowance and final sewing was great. Thanks a million!
Really glad it helped. I hope youll send pictures of the finished project!
I appreciate how you forego the obligatory name-brand plug for your equipment,
Your attention to detail is amazing.
amazing workmanship and your an excellent teacher, thank you! I would love to hire you for my cars
Thanks Shawn!
Fantastic and really informative video, it's going to be a great help along with your others,I'm feeling confident now to try to do my vintage car interior refurbishment now,I've got no doubt on the fact that I'll have questions for you in time that hopefully you might answer, a big thanks to you again, it's great to see a craftsman at work.
That's a nice machine your using. I understand what you mean when you explain your processes. ☺
Man that looks comfy
Very innovative.
thanks!
To fit the cotton batting into the channels take plastic wrap 6 inches longer than the cut batting. Fold 3 inches down on then overlap the sides. Next place a vacuum cleaner nozzle and wrap the plastic wrap around the 3 inches that are remaining on the bottom of the wrapped cotton batting, sealing the batting in the plastic wrap. Turn the vacuum on to suck the air out of the sealed piece (like a space bag). It it helpful to have another person to help, with the vacuum still in place lift the shrink batting piece and slide it into 1 of the channels sewn with the upholestry material then repeat using a new piece of plastic wrap with each channel until all the channels are filled. Removing the plastic wrap after filling the channel is not necessary. Works like a charm
What a cool idea! Thanks art! I will have to try this next time.
Good
I have a 1940 Buick Rear seat I am restoring ,It is metal springs on a wooden frame it is in 3 pieces and was coming apart do you have any videos on this type of seat ? It would sure help as i haven't found anything on this type of seat and how it was originally put together ,Thanks
I would turn the work over and put the ease on the bottom, let the feed dogs do their job. The job of the feed dogs is to move the fabric under the pressure foot. In tailoring, we would put the part to be gathered on the bottom and it becomes gathered as we sew. A walking foot machine is not as good at this since it has a split toe, but would still help with the job.
I did my seats off one of your old tuck and roll videos, like when you were called Young Guns or something like that. Anyway, for amateurs like me I found ironing the fold line of the vinyl really helped keeping stuff straight and not awkward.... ironed with just the tip of the iron, on the very edge of the fold. I can’t imagine a professional doing what I did but if it’s your first time then ironing the thick awkward a vinyl can make it easier.
Thats a great tip! Thanks for sharing!
For the stuffing use plastic bag and vacuum pump suck air out it should work if you get the right bag
Will this work for a head board 54 x 48 for my son ,by the way great work
Is there a correct grain/stretch direction?
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hey John, im big into fabrication and i like to make myself templates for when i have even just a few things to make the same exact size or shape. if you do a lot of 2 inch pleats why not make yourself a lexan template 4 inches wide to make your batting strips. you can see through it and everything will be uniform , also takes some thought process out of a tedious task. just line up the edge and cut. On another note not exactly related to this particular video... i have a small roll of vinyl that got folded in half to go into a bag from the supplier and the material face now has a repetitious wrinkle i'd rather not have in the finished piece. how can i get these wrinkles out. heat? steam? as always, thanks for these videos.
This video is super helpful!! I have a related question - My 1936 car used a "coir" coconut fiber padding underneath the tuck& roll. But this stuff is hard to find now. Will 1" foam work just as well? Thanks again for the great video!!
yes foam will work better. The only reason i would go with coconut fiber would be if you trying to keep the car %100 original.
Channel tins or take them to Build-A-Bear workshop. It’s alllllllll good !
HAHAHA! That's a great idea!
The cotton batting that you show in the video appears to be much more dense than what I bought. How would I specify a density when ordering and who would be be a good supplier for this? Thank you for all of your work on the videos you produce.
If you order, real actual cotton backing (not synthetic) it should only come in one density. Glad you are enjoying the videos!
The cotton batting that I bought is 100% cotton, seed hulls and all. Where did you buy the cotton that you used? I have researched and found nothing about grading for density. There are specifics for the amount of linters in the cotton. Mine is really dirty. Thank you
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I also am having trouble finding this cotton anywhere. Can you share your source? I ordered some thinking it would be thick like yours and it’s super thin.
Found the cotton on Amazon. You just have to search deep. Thanks for the vid.
Check out this video for an alternative pleat stuffing technique guys. Skip to 35.30
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What kind of sewing machine would you recommend for a beginner.
Depends on your budget. For new machines the fabricator and consew206 are good
to start out with. You can find good used walking foot machines on CL
for around 500-800 if you look.
Make sure you get a walking foot machine though.
you can also get a new one portable from Sailrte.com for $700 LS-1,
that's what I have, i'm a beginner upholstery and been doing car seats
with that machine. I will buy the Fabricator once I save some money
since that one is double the price around $1400 or so. Thanks for the videos Lucky Needle
@@SIE7EJL Good suggestion! Thanks.
Thank you, I will check that one out.
Where did you learn how to do all this upholstery? You’re young!
I took an upholstery class when I was in automotive trade school in 2008. Ive been doing upholstery in some way since then and always improving every project.
Not sure how you guys do things in the U.S but here in Australia we have to do an apprenticeship with an employer in order to go to trade school to learn trades. I was lucky enough to have a trial run at an employer last year in car upholstery and learnt how to use a sewing machine unfortunately I am no longer with the employer but I was able to buy a sewing machine. I learn so much from your videos as well as other car upholsterers on youtube, it's definitely something I enjoy doing and will continue it as a hobby.
No, in the US you just sign up ,pay your tuition and go to school. Having to do an apprenticeship first is probably a good idea. A lot of people here spend all this time and money going school, get a job and then find out they don't want to work in their industry. I was working at an auto repair shop since I was 16. So had a pretty good idea of what I was getting into.
Really glad to hear you enjoy the videos!!
The Lucky Needle you’re awesome!
"Hey where's the creme filling " ."oops cotton filling" !
Why not cut each vinyl strip at the fold line, so you don't have to hold it folded down perfectly. Instead you could lie the cut piece exactly where it belongs and not have to keep moving along pushing it down folding it. Then every pleat will be as easy as the last line of sewing at the end of the piece. No forcing that vinyl to fold down so tightly.
Yep i did the same it's much easier !
This is certainly not as easy as it looks. I have been working on some antique car seats, trying to get the tuck and roll (5.5" wide) right for a few weeks now! After much work, they are turning out not bad, but one of the difficult things I have encountered (using the cotton method) is determining the correct amount of cotton to stuff in. Too little can leave lumps, and too much makes the material too rigid to work with.
Nope... cotton right of the plant is full of seeds...