Every piece and every bit of your upholstered pieces of furniture are important parts of its whole – no matter how small or big the piece may be. It would not be a beautiful and sturdy piece of furniture without every little thing that binds it together. If you are a furniture designer, maker, or even just an enthusiast, you would understand that having a durable piece of upholstered furniture would not be possible without its fabric, wood, upholstery nails, and even the smallest of parts – upholstery tacks. These parts are what gives each piece detail, design, beauty, durability, and life. However, not everyone knows that this is more than just what attaches your chosen fabric to the furniture’s wood, or mainframe. You can do so much more with upholstery tacks, more than just for pieces of furniture, unlike you would imagine. Not only that, but it can also easily be used and applied with the right tools in hand. All of the tools that you would be using would also be applicable to be used in installing upholstery nails because of the same build design of nails and tacks, so it is quite a very good investment to make most especially if you are really going into furniture design and making.
Indoor Upholstered Furniture
Upholstery tacks are a crucial part of indoor upholstered pieces of furniture. These are what keeps the fabric and the wood attached to each other so that it does not get torn easily, and your furniture does not fall apart. Upholstery tacks offer less design and detail compared to upholstery nails. Meaning, these tacks are more for functionality more than anything. And because of its size and how smaller they are compared to upholstery nails, it would not be that noticeable compared to other nails with different shapes, sizes, finishing, and colours. Upholstery tacks are smaller in size, and it would be hidden perfectly while doing its job. One thing you should take into consideration, however, is that these tacks are made of steel, so you should be careful when cleaning your pieces of furniture so that the tacks and nails would not accumulate rust and cause the furniture to deteriorate faster than it would with your normal wear and tear. Aside from that, you are sure to get durable materials that would help in making sure that the pieces of furniture that you are building, or maybe even re-building, would be built with high-quality materials to make it last through time.
Fabric to Wood Projects
Using upholstery tacks and nails are not only limited to furniture design and making applications. In fact, you could just about use it on any project that you have where you need to attach a piece of fabric material to wood. It is one of the better options and even a more economical alternative than using staple wires. A lot can go wrong with staples, and you might end up stapling and puncturing your fabric more than you need to just so you could properly attach it with the use of a stapler. Because of how thin staple wires can be, it would also be harder to remove once it already gets through the fabric and the wood. Unlike with upholstery tacks, where you have a head you could work with, and with just a simple tool such as a plier, you would already be able to remove the tacks that you dislike. You can make any sort of project from leathered photo frames, cork boards covered in fabric, basically everything you could do with fabric and wood.
More for Less
For only £9.50 to £9.99, you could already be able to get a kilogram’s worth of upholstery tacks from Heico Direct. You would also have two choices between tacks with either a fine or improved cut. Rest assured, that you would be getting high-quality steel pieces with a blued finish. A blued finish means that the steel has been treated so that it gives each piece of a tack a protection from rust. Aside from the rust protection bluing does, it also gives off a nice feel and texture to each piece which makes it easier to use. The best thing about Heico Direct is you get the best value for your money, most especially if you opt to buy in bulk. You could save as much as £1.70 to 1.99 on each kilogram if you were to buy as much as 10KG of upholstery tacks per order. It is good to stock up on these functional and helpful materials because it also comes in different lengths which makes it greatly applicable to different kinds of pieces and projects. You can have upholstery tacks in fine and improved cuts, in various lengths of 10mm, 13mm, and 15mm.