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Upholstery Fabric in Johannesburg
Looking for upholstery fabric in Johannesburg? Say what you are covering, how many pieces, plain or patterned, the colour and feel you want, and whether you need a high rub count, outdoor or fire-retardant cloth. Mention if you want samples or delivery, so fabric suppliers in Gauteng can quote.
The main upholstery fabric page explains the options, materials and costs in more detail.
Supplies & care in Johannesburg: local notes
The fabric shops around the CBD sell upholstery fabric off the roll, along with piping cord, zips by the metre, webbing and staples, and are a stop for DIYers recovering seat pads. Foam is cut to size by suppliers in the southern industrial areas, often while you wait. Upholstery cleaning is booked most before December and after winter, when couches in busy family homes need extraction cleaning, and machine hire suits flats with a single couch.
Upholsterers and suppliers in Johannesburg
Upholstery in Johannesburg runs on two old trades that never left the inner city. Fabric and trimming shops still line the streets around the CBD, and motor trimmers work out of the older industrial pockets of Booysens, Selby and City Deep, close to the taxi ranks and the bakkie traffic heading south. Around them sit a century of suburbs: Parktown and Houghton houses with wingbacks and Chesterfields worth keeping, art deco flats in Killarney and Yeoville with compact lounge suites, and family homes in Soweto where home workshops recover couches in the yard. Distances and traffic matter here, so ask an upholsterer near you whether collection by bakkie is included. Dry Highveld winters crack neglected leather, so condition it before it splits.
The requests we see from Johannesburg usually come from:
- Homeowners and tenants: a family couch, dining chair seats or a headboard in a colour that suits the lounge
- Car, bakkie and taxi owners: automotive cloth and faux suede for seat inserts, door cards and kombi bench seats
- Restaurants, hotels, guesthouses and lodges: high rub count, fire-retardant cloth for guesthouse lounges, restaurant booths and bar stools
Local tips for Johannesburg
Common here: lounge suites and wingbacks in older homes, taxi and bakkie seats, leather repairs. Ask each workshop about this: ask whether the quote includes collection, delivery and the fabric deposit. Where they work from: cBD fabric and trimming shops, Booysens and Selby trimmers, Soweto home workshops.
Jobs range widely: half a metre to full rolls. Here, homeowners and tenants lead the requests, typically for a family couch, dining chair seats or a headboard in a colour that suits the lounge. One local point to raise: workshops collect by bakkie; fabric and foam are bought in the CBD or the south.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Upholsterers and suppliers on our network work in Johannesburg and surrounding areas, including Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville. Give the suburb and say whether the pieces must be collected, so the collection fee can be quoted honestly.