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• The Business of Upholstery Education: Turning Your Skills into a Teaching Program

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    July 08, 2025
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    1:00 PM

  Join our panel as they share their unique approaches to integrating upholstery education into their businesses.

  

  Panel Discussion with Kymm Clark, Lindsay Orwig, Nancy Sargent, Rhonda Shanahan, and Claire Wright.
  

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• How to Specify Fabrics for Window Treatments and Upholstery

  • When
    August 12, 2025
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    1:00 PM

  With Morris Mayer

  
  

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• The Makers Meet Workroom Seminar

  • Start
    August 14, 2025
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  • End
    August 15, 2025
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  • Location
    Burlington, NC

  
  

  The Makers Meet Workroom Seminar
  Presented by Trivantage®
  
  August 14-15, 2025
  
  Sunbrella HQ®, Burlington, North Carolina
  
  The Makers Meet is a celebration of the skill, creativity, and community that drive great workrooms and upholstery shops. From product demos, performance fabric previews, and behind-the-scenes access, to expert-led workshops, business tips, and networking with vendors, it’s an experience crafted to inspire.
  
  This event is $300 per ticket and includes:
  
  

  • A day and a half of education and workshops led by industry experts

  • Fabric previews and a behind-the-scenes tour of the Sunbrella Novelty Yarn Plant

  • Access to a vendor marketplace, showcasing the latest innovations, tools, and materials from leading industry suppliers

  • All meals including a Sunbrella Stain Bar cocktail hour and welcome reception dinner

  • A special gift from Trivantage

  
  Workshops:
  
  Susan Woodcock: Luxury Drapery Construction
  
  Grant Trick: Precision & Process: Elevate Your Work, Streamline Your Flow
  
  Charlene Clark: How to Build a Resilient Business
  Camdyn Conner Lloyd: Why Sunbrella

  Trivantage has a hotel room block at the nearby Inn at Elon. Attendees can book a room when registering for the event and enjoy a discounted rate of $129 a night.

  Explore the full schedule, get to know our presenters, learn about workshops, register, and more at events.trivantage.com. Registration is required by Wednesday, July 16 to attend.
  

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• Tips and Tricks from the Professionals at PUN

  • When
    September 09, 2025
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    1:00 PM

  
  

  With Lindsay Orwig

  
  

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• NUA Pre-Event for the Custom Workroom Conference

  • When
    September 22, 2025
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    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    1901 Meadowview Parkway, Kingsport, Tennessee 37660
  • Spaces left
    46

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  Join the National Upholstery Association for our Annual Pre-Event at CWC: NUA Birthday Bash!!

  This year the NUA turns 7, and we want to celebrate with you!

  Come to mix and mingle with us before CWC Registration opens on Monday, September 22nd, from 2-4pm.

  We will enjoy games and prizes, connecting with friends, and maybe even a few special guests!

  Light refreshments to be served.
  

  Meet & Greet - Birthday Party Theme

  2pm-4pm, Monday, September 22nd, 2025

  $25/$35 for NUA members/non-members
  

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• Custom Workroom Conference

  • Start
    September 23, 2025
  • End
    September 25, 2025
  • Location
    Kingsport, TN

  Why attend CWC?

  If you are new to the workroom industry, or would like to learn more about starting your own workroom business.

  If you are an experienced workroom owner looking for fellowship, fresh ideas and inspiration.

  If you are looking for better and more efficient methods and equipment to improve production.

  If you would like to meet your peers and suppliers in person, to put a face to a name and strengthen relationships.

  If you would like help with pricing, marketing or setting business goals.

  If you have never attended a workroom conference – it can be life changing!

  ​https://www.customworkroomconference.com/

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• RV Interiors Made Easy

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    October 14, 2025
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    1:00 PM

  Learn the basics of RV interiors, from camper vans to luxury motor homes.  You'll discover the tools and special supplies required.  Find out the difference between home and RV furniture and cushions and other requirements you need to consider for pricing.  How to start easy and what to watch out for.

  With Diane Girty

  Diane lives in Windsor Ontario Canada, just south of Detroit, and surrounded by the great lakes. Her business, “New Skins Upholstery”, is behind her house. 80% of her business comes from Marine, but she also does auto, furniture, ATV’s and RV’s.

  She has been in the upholstery business for 16 years, having spent the first 32 years of her career doing accounting/finance.

  In her spare time she loves to travel, do crafts and ride her bike. She has 6 grandchildren from ages 25 to 15, all of whom have learned to sew/upholster in her shop. Two granddaughters are learning the upholstery trade and loving it.

  
  

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• Advanced Textiles Expo 2025

  • Start
    November 05, 2025
  • End
    November 07, 2025
  • Location
    Indianapolis, IN

  CONNECT with over 4,500 textiles professionals.

  DISCOVER the newest innovations in the marketplace.

  SOURCE from over 300 exhibitors to drive your business forward.

  Advanced Textiles Expo, formerly IFAI Expo, is organized by Advanced Textiles Association (ATA).

  For a century, Advanced Textiles Expo has been the industrial fabrics industry’s flagship show. As the premier textiles event, Expo is the place where industry stakeholders and leaders CONNECT, DISCOVER, and SOURCE in order to grow their businesses.

  
  

  https://advancedtextilesexpo.com
  

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• Intermediate Spring Tying Techniques

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    November 11, 2025
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    1:00 PM

  With Upholstery Education's Gareth Rees

  In this webinar, Gareth will expand on an earlier discussion of spring dynamics, how they work, effective lashing methods for a range of furniture styles and methods for choosing the right gauges and heights.

  Gareth Rees has been working as an upholsterer for over 27 years. He gained his training on the shop floor, working in various workshops in England and Wales and is versed in many aspects of furniture making from cabinet work to mattress making.

  Gareth started his own company in 2004 and in this time has taken commissions and private work for high end interior design companies, bespoke furniture makers, private collectors, antique dealers, embassies and museums.

  Here in the US, Gareth is the course writer and primary tutor for Upholstery Education, offering continuing education classes to upholstery professionals and aspiring individuals new to the trade. Back home in the United Kingdom, Gareth is a director and full time instructor at the British School of Upholstered Furniture in Oxfordshire, UK where he teaches the Association of Master Upholsterers and Soft Furnishers (AMUSF) Diploma program. He is also the lead tutor for the Advancements in Traditional Upholstery Diploma, run in association with the Guild of Traditional Upholsterers (GTU).

  Past Chairman of the Guild of Traditional Upholsterers. Currently he sits as its vice chair and examination/journeyman secretary.

  In March 2023 Gareth was awarded the Master Upholders certificate from the Worshipful Company of Upholders.

  Although a full-time educator, Gareth still takes on commissions from select clients, predominantly focusing on the decorative arts from 1840-1950.

  Gareth is eager to promote and celebrate the craft and trade of upholstery to a broader spectrum of people.

  
  

  
  

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• Professional Upholstery Cleaning Tips and Products with Katie on the Spot

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    December 09, 2025
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    1:00 PM

  With Katie Reuther

    I’m passionate about textiles and love sharing maintenance advice with my clients. With 20+ years working in the textile cleaning industry, I have witnessed many of the pains and concerns of my clients. And now I have my own darling [read: messy] family to keep my skills sharp.  There’s a difference between learned knowledge and experienced knowledge.
  

  
  

  
  

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