English Black and White Webbing?

[BobbyD]

In a couple of the books I have been working with in learning upholstery,


http://www.amazon.com/New-Holland-Professional-Upholstery-Complete/dp/1847730574/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353117385&sr=1-4&keywords=upholstery

and

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Upholsterer-Upholstering-Traditional-Furniture/dp/0711210926/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353117431&sr=1-5&keywords=upholstery,


the authors indicate that only English black and white herringbone webbing should be used to support sprung seats.  Both these authors are Brits, as you might imagine, and I have noticed that this webbing seems extremely difficult to procure stateside.  What do you all say about this?  Is this just a bit of old world snobbery, or are we Yanks cutting corners underneath the springs?  And does anyone know I good way to get this webbing in the U.S.?

[gene]

http://www.upholster.com/upholstery-forum/index.php?topic=10991.0


I have the second book by Carol Thomerson. The emphasis is on 'traditional' upholstery.

gene

[Joys Shop]

In the US we have 2 types of jute webbing
Black and Red

the black webbing is used for backs
and
the Red webbing is used for seats

The author is telling you to use only "English black and white herringbone webbing" for the seats because that is what they have in England
Here
I would tell you to only use the red for seats

[BobbyD]

http://www.upholster.com/upholstery-forum/index.php?topic=10991.0


I have the second book by Carol Thomerson. The emphasis is on 'traditional' upholstery.

gene

I take it you are referring to Covered in Style?  That appears to be out of print and quite hard to come by.  Would you recommend seeking it out?  Of course I have plenty of techniques to work on with the books I have now!

I am aware of the difference between the red-stripe jute, and the black-stripe jute, and have been using the former for seats (after an uniformed failure to do so on my first couple of projects  :-[).  And I have never discovered anything but red-stripe jute webbing on the pieces I have stripped.  But the authors in the aforementioned books explicitly state that the black and white webbing is preferable to (mandatory for even) the jute webbing for sprung seats.  I suspect that their insistence is more a matter of tradition than necessity though.