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The Indian Upholstery Craft
Upholstery has schools not one method What we practise at Alhur is the Indian upholstery craft: cutting by hand on the seat itself stitching by hand where the work will not forgive a shortcut and craftsmen who learned the trade before they learned the machine
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Cut by hand
Material is cut on the seat itself not to a generic template Every seat has its own curves and measurements and hand-cutting follows them exactly That is what stops the rippling that shows up at the curves a few months into daily use
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Hand-stitched where it counts
A steering wheel is a curved surface of changing diameter; stitching it by hand lets the leather be tensioned correctly at every point so it never loosens The same goes for edges and the joints where two panels meet Those are the places where a shortcut announces itself
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Craftsmen not hands
The hands in our shop are Indian and they are professionals in this craft specifically They have been with us a long time That is not an administrative detail: a craftsman who stays years in the same shop knows how the work is done here so the fiftieth car leaves at the standard of the first
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Twenty-five years
The shop has been in Dammam for 25 years and we have customers who have been coming back to us for years car after car The reputation reaches across the Eastern Province and customers travel to us from cities well beyond the immediate area
Upholstery is not judged on handover day Every job looks good when it is new The difference shows after a summer or two: has the material slackened at the curve? has a seam opened at the friction point? is the edge still taut? Handwork takes longer precisely because it treats those places one at a time and that is the whole difference
Come and see the work in person before you decide Ask to look closely at a stitch at a finished edge at a fitted seat That is where one school of upholstery separates from another