Chair Fabric
Fabric for Chair Seats
from €23.98
Customise your own chair fabric with your photos, images and text. Durable chair upholstery fabric, create...
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Customise your own chair fabric with your photos, images and text. Durable chair upholstery fabric, create...
Read MoreShips in 1 - 2 days
Delivery: €9.95
Handmade item
We offer both medium and heavy weight chair fabric, which each have their own properties and characteristics.
Browse our range of chair fabrics
Medium weight, soft and non-stretch with a matte finish, brushed/napped face and non fray
100% polyester
Heavy weight, soft, stiff and non-stretch with a shiny finish, brushed/napped face
100% polyester
Heavy weight, soft and non-stretch with a matte finish and brushed/napped face
100% polyester
Heavy weight, textured and non stretch with a a matte finish
90% pvc 5% polyester 5% cotton
Heavy weight, soft and non stretch with a soft sheen finish, napped face
100% polyester
Care instructions
30°c wash, low tumble dry heat or hang to dry, do not wring.
Reupholstering a chair is a home DIY project that can be taken up by even a novice. Upholstery is the art of providing furniture, most commonly chairs, with the soft parts of the furnishings; padding, springs, webbing and covers. Reupholstering a chair is simply re-doing that part, often just the fabric (although some people will opt to bulk out, or change the padding at the same time). When choosing a chair fabric, you want one that is going to be able to stand up to being sat on, and stood up from, day in day out for years to come. All of our hand picked chair fabrics have been Martindale rub tested, and are proven durable fabrics.
The Martindale rub test is done to find out the durability of a fabric. It involves the fabric being repeatedly rubbed in a circular motion with a very abrasive material, such as wire mesh. This is done over and over, until the fabric has a noticeable difference in it's appearance or when two yarns break. The oscillations are counted, and this determines whether or not a fabric is considered durable.
All of our fabrics are printed at 200dpi. This works for us as it combines a great quality as well as a good file weight. In order to avoid resizing and interpolation, we recommend that you scale your image to 100% at 200dpi. Our design interface works with a traffic light system that acts as a quality marker for your designs. This will show you whether the resolution is too low for printing. When you re-upload your design with
Your uploaded design will automatically be scaled to fit the size of
We always recommend using an RGB colour space when you upload your images. More specifically, we suggest using the sRGB image profile, to achieve
There is no length limit for most of our fabrics. Our preview design window is set up to display a maximum of 10m to help you visualise the print, but that doesn't mean this is the print limit. If you'd like to order more, you can increase the quantity (x2 for 20m or x4 for 40m for example) and order as much as you'd like. Larger volumes will receive an automatic discount too. While the fabric length is nothing to worry about, each individual fabric will have a maximum width side: these can be found on the fabric's page information or in the design interface.
Yes, that will help you when it comes to cutting or framing your printed fabric. We recommend always adding a little extra space for borders into your purchased fabric size. When we print your
Crocking is the term used to describe fading along the creases in
Yes, our organic fabrics don't have an additional coating like non-organic fabrics have, which means it absorbs the inks deep into its fibre and reducing the colour strength slightly (this can be approximately -40%). If you would like a bolder, more vibrant colour for your fabric, we would suggest using a non-organic fabric.
Unfortunately not; all of our fabrics have been tested meticulously to ensure we know exactly how to get the best results, and our facilities cater perfectly to them. If you are set on a fabric we don't offer, we can offer custom printed sublimation paper to order which will allow you to heat press your designs onto your own fabrics.
If your design is simple and less intricate, a JPEG will be absolutely fine. However, if you have created a design with multi-coloured detailing, we would recommend saving your design in a TIFF format.
Similar to other fabric printing processes, shrinkage can occur. The amount of shrinkage will depend on the fabric, but as a general rule of thumb, please allow for 2-8% shrinkage when working out your measurements. Shrinkage is not an exact science, and the amount of shrinkage will vary from print run to print run. We'd always suggest ordering a little more than you need for your project.
Many of the fabrics we offer are semi-transparent, so printing on both sides of the fabric is not a service we offer.
At the moment, all of our fabric labels are printed on satin fabric. For now, we believe this is the best choice, but will potentially introduce other options in the future. All labels are cut to the same label format. If you would like to choose a different fabric and format for your labels, you could always order a sheet of the fabric of your choice to create labels yourself.
Our fabrics are printed with water-based inks as environmental consciousness is
Although very rare, there could be a slight colour difference from one print run to another. This is a normal part of the printing process,
Our full cut & sew service at Bags of Love can be used to your full advantage. We even offer hemming for your fabrics at a small additional cost. Our hems are created with a one or two cold hem that typically uses around 5 to 20mm of fabric (depending on the thickness of your chosen material). Please bear this in mind when you are ordering your printed fabric with hems: If you would like your finished piece to be 100cm x 100cm, change your dimensions to 101.5cm instead to allow space for your hems (you will also need to include additional for potential shrinkage). The thicker the fabric, the bigger the hem will be. Your printed fabric will be hemmed with either Black or White thread. If you are ordering a lightly woven material or
For further information about our fabrics see our FAQs.
Please note: As everything we provide is handmade to order, you may find a slight variance in the sizes.