Tape Backs – Professional Tufting Accessories | Intercounty Supplies

Achieve flawless buttoning and deep-tufted finishes with Tape Backs from Intercounty Supplies — the trusted name in professional upholstery supplies across the UK. These durable steel components are essential for upholsterers looking to secure buttons tightly and create smooth, uniform tufting across sofas, chairs, headboards, and commercial seating.

Tape Backs play a crucial role in buttoning work by anchoring the cords that fasten button tops, ensuring strong, long-lasting tension and a clean, professional result. Manufactured from high-quality steel, these backs are designed for strength, precision, and trade-grade reliability — helping upholsterers maintain consistent results on every project.

Supplied in bags of 1000, they offer exceptional value for workshops, furniture makers, and restoration specialists who require dependable, high-volume supplies for daily use.

Key Features

• Material: Manufactured from durable steel to ensure maximum strength and long-term reliability.

• Quantity: Supplied in bags of 1000, ideal for busy upholstery workshops and furniture manufacturers.

• Function: Designed to hold button cords or tufts securely in place, maintaining tension and stability.

• Compatibility: Works seamlessly with button tops, tufting needles, and other upholstery tools.

• Versatility: Suitable for use with fabric, leather, vinyl, and synthetic upholstery materials.

• Ease of Use: Quick to install, adjust, and secure during the buttoning process, saving valuable workshop time.

• Trade Supply: Packaged in professional quantities for trade and commercial upholstery applications.

• Bulk Trade Discounts: Available for large or repeat workshop orders.

Benefits

• Professional Finish: Tape Backs help upholsterers achieve smooth, even buttoning by holding button cords firmly in position, ensuring a polished, uniform appearance.

• Superior Strength: The robust steel construction prevents bending or breaking, even during heavy-tension applications or repeated installations.

• Reliable Hold: Once installed, they maintain firm cord tension, preventing loosening or sagging over time.

• Versatile Compatibility: Designed for use with various button tops, tufting wires, and prong backs, making them suitable for traditional and modern upholstery setups alike.

• Time-Saving Efficiency: Easy to attach and adjust, Tape Backs allow upholsterers to work faster while maintaining precision across every button line.

• Long-Lasting Durability: Rust-resistant finish ensures performance remains consistent, even in humid or high-use environments such as hospitality and commercial seating.

• Trade-Grade Performance: Engineered to meet professional upholstery standards for accuracy, strength, and finish quality.

• Cost-Effective: Sold in bulk trade packs of 1000 pieces, providing great value for both independent upholsterers and high-volume furniture manufacturers.

• Trusted Nationwide: Used by upholsterers, restorers, and furniture makers throughout the UK for reliability and ease of use.

Applications

Tape Backs are indispensable in all types of buttoning and tufting upholstery work. Their versatility and strength make them suitable for both domestic and commercial furniture projects, including:

• Deep-Buttoned Sofas & Armchairs: Essential for securing the cords behind each button, creating perfect, symmetrical tufting.

• Headboards & Bed Panels: Used to hold tufted designs in place for luxury residential or hotel interiors.

• Ottomans, Benches & Footstools: Ensures buttoning remains firm and durable even with frequent use.

• Banquette & Restaurant Seating: Provides a strong, reliable hold for decorative and structural tufting in commercial environments.

• Automotive & Caravan Interiors: Perfect for leather or vinyl upholstery that requires both strength and precision.

• Furniture Restoration: Ideal for antique or vintage furniture where accurate deep-buttoning reproduction is essential.

• Custom Upholstery Projects: Used in bespoke furniture manufacturing and design for a trade-standard finish.

Why Choose Intercounty Supplies?

With over 30 years of experience serving the upholstery industry, Intercounty Supplies is one of the UK’s most trusted providers of professional upholstery materials, tools, and sundries. Our commitment to quality and reliability ensures that trade professionals get the products they can depend on — every time.

When you order from us, you benefit from:

• Decades of experience supplying professional upholsterers and furniture makers.

• Trade-grade materials tested for performance and consistency.

• Fast, reliable UK-wide delivery from our own logistics network.

• Expert customer support for both trade and retail clients.

• Bulk trade customer discounts available on high-volume orders.

Our Tape Backs are a staple in upholstery workshops across the UK — offering the perfect combination of durability, ease of use, and professional finish. Whether you’re upholstering luxury furniture or restoring a classic piece, these essential tufting accessories guarantee lasting results.

FAQs

What are Tape Backs used for?
They’re used to secure button cords or tufts at the rear of upholstered furniture, ensuring strong, even tension in buttoning work.

Are they compatible with all button tops?
Yes – they work with prong backs, tufting cords, and other buttoning accessories, making them highly versatile.

How many come in a pack?
Each pack contains 1000 Tape Backs, providing excellent value for trade workshops.

What materials can they be used with?
They are suitable for fabric, leather, vinyl, and synthetic upholstery materials.

Do you offer trade discounts?
Yes – we provide bulk trade customer discounts for upholstery professionals and furniture manufacturers ordering in larger quantities.

Order Today

Secure your buttoning and tufting with Tape Backs from Intercounty Supplies – the professional upholsterer’s choice for reliability, strength, and precision. Sold in trade packs of 1000, these durable steel backs make it easy to achieve perfect tension and a clean finish every time.

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