How Much Fabric to Recover Dining Chair Seat?

You need roughly 0.5m to 0.7m of 140cm wide fabric per dining chair seat, but that figure changes quickly once pattern repeat, fabric width and directional weaves come into play. This guide gives the formula for calculating your requirement from the pad itself, explains how to handle tapered and notched seats, and shows why a 60cm pattern repeat can add half as much again to your total. It also covers cutting directional fabrics like velvet so every chair reads the same colour, buying from a single dye lot, choosing an appropriate fabric weight and rub rating for daily dining use, and budgeting for foam, wadding and webbing alongside the fabric itself....