Making a handmade armchair from bent wood

In this video you can see how an armchair is made. Most of the steps are carried out by hand.
The work is varied and ranges from the armchair frame made of bent and glued ash wood, to the upholstery straps made of flax and the sewing of the upholstery cover for the foam cushion.

I had wanted to build an armchair for our living room for a long time.
There was still some ash wood left over from the bucket project    • Making a bucket completely from wood ...  . The armchairs have now been made from this.

It wouldn't have been worth making the bending and gluing moulds for just one armchair, so I ended up making two identical armchairs.
I filmed the first armchair. With number two, additional film material was added.

I completely assembled the wooden parts of the armchair once to determine the lengths of the upholstery straps before rounding the wooden edges. I don't show this part in the video, however, as I want to keep the suspense about the appearance of the chair until the end.

Have fun....

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0:00 Splitting and cutting wood
0:41 Steaming, straightening and planing wood.
1:16 Bending, gluing and machining feet.
3:19 Crosspieces for base frame.
3:59 Gluing the base frame.
4:30 Making seat timbers.
6:01 Making the clamping timbers.
6:38 Oiling the surface.
6:54 Sewing upholstery straps.
7:50 Cutting and sewing the fabric cover.
10:08 Covering the upholstery with wadding.
10:44 Fabric cover and upholstery come together.
11:15 Assembling