Instructors
Michael Mascelli
I am a working upholsterer and objects conservator and specialize in upholstery for period and period reproduction pieces, though my work takes me to all sorts of unusual places including some very unique contemporary pieces. I also have been teaching and lecturing in person for many years at most of the well-known woodworking schools throughout the country as well as on line, and these classes have for the most part been “casual” in that they are for a general audience, not for professionals in the trade. I am now part of the National Upholstery Association which is a wonderful and long overdue trade organization, though most of the members are involved in upholstery with modern materials.
However, I have been a student and practitioner of traditional hand sewn upholstery for many years, in the English tradition as taught by the master David James and also through the work of Leroy Graves at Williamsburg who I know through the Society of American Period Furniture Makers (SAPFM). And I cannot think of a better place to offer a class in traditional upholstery than at Historic Eastfield Village surrounded by the genuine feel of the earlier time.