Upholstery Tack Strips

Our commercial grade upholstery tack strips are the trick to creating crisp, clean edges on your upholstery projects. Knowing what to use where on your upholstery project is key, here are the different types below: 

Common Types of Upholstery Tack Strips & Uses

Metal Tack Strip

Metal tack strips are designed to hold the fabric to the outside back or front arm to the upholstery frame. It creates a thin-edged seamless definition forgoing the need of staples. Upholstery metal tack strips can be used with many different types of fabrics and leather furniture. If you are new the process don't worry all of our tack strip products come with instructions!

Flexible Metal Tack Strip

Flexible tack strip is used when you are fastening fabric to curved parts of furniture, like wingbacks, curved arms and arched part of chairs. Flexible metal tack strip has a teeth side and hole side that is staples onto the frame and when pinched closed with the fabric inside creates a seamless finish. 

Cardboard Tack Strip

Cardboard tack strip is best used on parts of an upholstery project that the eye does not see, such as the back of a chair or underneath the arms of a sitting chair, or used with piping to prevent it from drooping. It helps in creating a crisp straight edge to add the finishing touch to your piece.