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Upholstery Leather and Vinyl in Johannesburg
Looking for leather or vinyl in Johannesburg? Say what you are covering, genuine hide or faux leather, the colour and finish, and whether it is for indoor, car, boat or medical use. Give the piece size or number of seats so leather merchants in Gauteng can quote.
The main upholstery leather and vinyl page explains the options, materials and costs in more detail.
Johannesburg notes on supplies & care
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.
Johannesburg: the homes, the climate and the workshops
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.
Who asks for upholstery leather and vinyl around Johannesburg, most often first:
- Homeowners and tenants: leather hides for a Chesterfield or recliner, or faux leather for dining chair seats
- Car, bakkie and taxi owners: automotive leather and vinyl for car, bakkie and taxi seats and door cards
- Restaurants, hotels, guesthouses and lodges: wipe-clean vinyl for restaurant booths and bar stools, hide for a lodge lounge
Local tips for Johannesburg
Upholsterers serving Johannesburg mostly work from here: cBD fabric and trimming shops, Booysens and Selby trimmers, Soweto home workshops. The jobs that come up most: lounge suites and wingbacks in older homes, taxi and bakkie seats, leather repairs. When you ask for quotes, ask whether the quote includes collection, delivery and the fabric deposit.
Upholstery Leather and Vinyl usually suits couches, car seats, boats and salon chairs. The job: per hide, by area, or vinyl by the metre. For homeowners and tenants, the biggest group here, that usually means leather hides for a Chesterfield or recliner, or faux leather for dining chair seats. On the climate side: dry winters crack leather; strong sun through north-facing windows fades fabric.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Our network covers Johannesburg together with Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville. A street address and a few photos help a supplier work out the job, the collection and the turnaround before quoting.