What Is an Upholstered Headboard?
An upholstered headboard is the often rectangular-shaped, tailored style of fabric-covered head piece of a bed. Unlike the type of fabric-covered headboard with its material stapled on, upholstered headboards feature a fitted look. A tailored headboard may have simple detailing such as a seam of piping for a decorative, yet basic trim, or it might include more elaborate gathering or button tufting. On tufted headboards, fabric-covered, round buttons are sewn tightly into a headboard that already has upholstery material on it. Expert upholsterers know how to make very tailored-looking tufted headboards with the button details neatly lined up to create a straight or diagonal pattern. An upholstered headboard is often padded as well as carefully stitched. Although button-tufted headboards are popular upholstered types, other kinds of techniques such as ruffles or pleats may be used. Shirring, or tightly gathered fabric, is used on some romantic headboards to add a soft look.
