By Reggie Darling
As some of my readers may remember, seven months ago to this very day I posted an essay titled The Perfect Covering for the Sought-After Chairs, Part I, in which I discussed my pleasure in finding a pair of New York City side chairs, circa 1800, for our drawing room at Darlington House.   In the essay I described the process Boy and I went through in removing the rather pedestrian fabric that was on the chairs and our excitement in discovering the pattern of the original nailhead decoration on the frames.

One of the chairs reupholstered in haircloth
and trimmed with brass nailheads

Well, as you can see from the photograph shown here, the chairs have now returned to Darlington House in their new slate colored haircloth (a term for material made with a horsehair... More...