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General Upholstery Questions and Comments => General Discussion => Topic started by: bosn_locker on April 21, 2011, 09:24:20 am

Title: Boat Upholstery
Post by: bosn_locker on April 21, 2011, 09:24:20 am
Can you use cotton batting in boat upholstery?
Title: Re: Boat Upholstery
Post by: Mike8560 on April 21, 2011, 09:32:30 am
Maybe inside I've never though
Title: Re: Boat Upholstery
Post by: bosn_locker on April 21, 2011, 09:34:31 am
I havn't either except I'm doing a seat with an inside curve thats eating my lunch.
Title: Re: Boat Upholstery
Post by: MinUph on April 21, 2011, 12:02:34 pm
On some vintage boats cotton was used. I would still use it if it was in a cabin., Dacron is the preferred fill now-a-days. Don't like it but its what everyone seems to use. Dacron will drain better. Be sure to use a plastic sheet over whatever if its outside on deck.
Title: Re: Boat Upholstery
Post by: stitchm on April 21, 2011, 01:48:47 pm
kapok fibre is another fill material that was used quite heavily in marine upholstery at one point. And  used as a buoyant fill in life jackets at some point.

"the silky down that invests the seeds of a silk-cotton tree (ka·pok tree), Ceiba pentandra,  of the East Indies, Africa, and tropical America: used for stuffing pillows, life jackets, etc., and for acoustical insulation.
Also called Java cotton."
Title: Re: Boat Upholstery
Post by: JuneC on April 21, 2011, 05:27:41 pm
I'd consider dacron, maybe cotton for an interior cushion.  Kapok is almost explosive in it's flammability.  I'd never put it on a boat - even though it used to be used for life vests.  Guess that was before closed cell foam.

June
Title: Re: Boat Upholstery
Post by: bosn_locker on April 22, 2011, 03:45:43 pm
Yea-pretty much what I'd been thinking.  Thanks for the replys.