The Working Upholsterer's Bible

Connect Remote server

claude mcp add --transport http upholsterers-bible https://learntoupholster.com/mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "upholsterers-bible": {
      "url": "https://learntoupholster.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "upholsterers-bible": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://learntoupholster.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector
URL: https://learntoupholster.com/mcp

Tools 8 found in our last check

• ask_the_book

  Ask a practical upholstery question and get an answer grounded strictly in the text of The Working Upholsterer’s Bible by Shaun Greenwood (master upholsterer, AMUSF accredited) — traditional and modern techniques, materials, UK fire regulations, projects and pricing. Answers cit…

• find_business_guidance

  Search the Learn to Upholster Business Hub: practical guidance on making a living from upholstery, as opposed to how to do the work. Covers what to charge and how to build an hourly rate, whether to charge for estimates, quoting and hidden damage, customer-supplied fabric, expla…

• calculate_fabric

  Work out how much fabric a reupholstery job needs, in metres and yards. Use this whenever someone asks how much fabric, cloth or material to buy for a chair, sofa, stool, headboard or cushion. Two ways to call it: give a piece name for a rule-of-thumb figure, or give a list of p…

• estimate_job_cost

  Estimate what reupholstering a piece of furniture costs, broken into labour, fabric, sundries and contingency, with a bench-hours figure. Use this for "how much does it cost to reupholster X", "is it worth reupholstering", and for comparing a professional job against doing it yo…

• calculate_leather

  Convert an upholstery job into hides of leather. Leather is sold by the hide in square feet, not by the metre, and hides are an irregular shape with unusable belly and edges, so the conversion is not obvious. Use whenever someone asks how much leather, or how many hides, a chair…

• calculate_deep_buttoning

  Work out a deep-buttoned diamond layout: how many buttons, the marking grid on the base, the wider grid on the fabric, and the cut size of the cover. The fabric grid is always larger than the base grid because fabric has to travel down into each button pull — get that wrong and…

• specify_foam

  Give the right foam specification for a job: density in kg/m3, hardness in newtons, depth in mm, foam type, wadding wrap, and the UK fire requirement. Use whenever someone asks what foam to buy, how thick, how firm, or why their cushions went flat. Density and hardness are diffe…

• check_fire_regulations

  Work out what the UK fire regulations require for a specific upholstery job. Covers two separate regimes that people mix up: the Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988 as amended, which govern domestic furniture supplied in the course of business, and BS 7176…

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