Matsu Upholstery
Seats and covers for ATVs, dirt bikes and boats, sewn in Alaska
Matsu Upholstery is a small upholstery shop serving Alaska, started in 2021. It sews and recovers four-wheeler seats, dirt bike seats, boat seats and boat covers, and takes on window coverings and other upholstery sewing.
Photographs from Matsu Upholstery's own website, credited to the maker. Makers can replace them when they claim this profile.
A trade kept going, one seat at a time
Some workshops begin with a business plan. Matsu Upholstery began with a sewing lesson. The maker behind it was taught to sew as a child by their mother, and in 2021 turned that skill into a small upholstery shop serving Alaska — partly for the pleasure of the work, and partly, in the maker's own words, to keep a dying profession going.
The work is the practical upholstery that northern life runs on: seats for four-wheelers and dirt bikes, boat seats and boat covers, window coverings, and whatever else needs sewing. Where machines carry people across trail and water for much of the year, a split seat or a torn cover is not a cosmetic problem. The photographs the shop shares are mostly before-and-afters — a worn seat cover beside its replacement, an old watercraft seat next to the new one.
Matsu Upholstery is run as a labour of love, kept busy through the winter and the summer alike. It is exactly the kind of workshop the Hiram Guild exists to make visible: small, skilled, and quietly carrying forward a trade that would otherwise disappear.
Written by the Hiram Guild from public information on matsuupholstery.com. Not yet reviewed by the maker.
The work
- Makes
- four-wheeler (ATV) seatsdirt bike seatsboat seats and cushionsboat covers and canvas enclosureswindow coveringschair reupholstery
- Techniques
- upholstery sewingseat recovering
About Matsu Upholstery
What does Matsu Upholstery do?
Upholstery sewing in Alaska: four-wheeler and dirt bike seats, boat seats and covers, window coverings and other custom sewing jobs.
Does Matsu Upholstery recover boat seats?
Yes. Boat seats, boat covers and watercraft seats are among the projects it takes on.
When was Matsu Upholstery started?
In 2021.
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- Established
- 2021
- Based in
- Alaska
- Serves
- Alaska
- Commissions
- Takes custom work
From public information on matsuupholstery.com, gathered October 13, 2026. Unverified until claimed.