Thanks to everyone on the staff at The Inn at Hocking College for the fine meeting room, motel rooms and restaurant facilities, too. We’d also like to thank Norm Fox, the Director at Robbins Crossing and his very amiable cooking crew for providing us the space and the fantastic home-cooked (on wood stove no less) lunch for all our attendees.
Our theme this year was “Adventures in Advanced Chair Caning Patterns” and the demonstrators provided quite an array of interesting patterns, which were unfamiliar to and never attempted by most of our attendees. Some demonstrations were actual hands-on audience experience, some explained their designs, some used hand-out instructions, and some used a combination of all three.
As before in previous years that we “gathered,” there in Nelsonville, there was a dedicated time for sharing of hints, tips and tools. All of this was to help broaden the individual chair seat weaver’s awareness of what’s available to them. And tips are also shared to help speed up the weaving process in a lot of cases, which makes us weavers more productive and improves each person’s bottom line in their business.
Then too, we had our annual general membership meeting, where we elected board members and ratified our by-laws. Incorporation of our chair caning guild is in process as we speak.
Our new Executive Board consists of:
Please take a look at our website http://www.SeatWeaversGuild.org where we will be adding the 2009 picture albums soon.
Do you have a basketry, fiber arts exhibition, rustic furniture gathering, gourd workshop or other relevant event you’d like to get out to the public, so everyone knows it’s going on? Want everyone to know about your 
Isn’t this old picture from the 1800s of a chair caning man marketing his services, great? Do you, like him, weave chair caning seats, rush seats and/or splint seats; or make any other kind of chair seat weaving repairs for that matter? 
