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Former Glory Seat Weaving–Monday Mention

January 30th, 2012 · No Comments · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog

MONDAY MENTION– Although I’ve mentioned Former Glory Seat Weaving Blog many times before here on my blog, I think their latest post deserves mentioning them again.

For those of you not familiar with this chair caning repair and seat weaving supply company, Former Glory, they are located in the southern part of England and are frequent contributors to the discussions on my Seatweaving & Chair Caning Forum–The Caner’s Community Hub™ as well as listed on my Cane & Basket Supply Directory™.

Gio Ponti woven cane seat

Always intrigued by fancy, difficult seat weaving patterns, I was especially thrilled to read “Weekend with Gio Ponti” where Kim and Tim discuss and show through a series of pictures, how to weave this extremely difficult and time consuming cane design and technique used on the Gio Ponti chairs from the 1950s.

Be sure to subscribe to their blog so you don’t miss anymore of their wonderful chair caning and seat weaving posts. Don’t you wonder how long it will take these very experienced and proficient weavers to finish weaving this seat and what we would have to charge over here on this side of the pond if we did it?

Have you ever run across a chair seat design like this and did you attempt to weave it replicating the weave exactly? Please leave a comment here and let us know how you did on the project AND what you charged. Thanks and Happy Weaving!

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Newsletters from Cane and Basket Suppliers

October 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog

Did you know that most of the Cane & Basket Suppliers listed on WickerWoman.com send out either weekly or monthly newsletters?  Well they do, and it’s a great way for the supply companies to let you know about their new products, instruction books, patterns  or maybe to even suggest using a material you’ve never tried before in your basket weaving creations.

Here are some suppliers that do send out newsletters and one  that has a blog, too! Take a look for yourself and consider subscribing to their newsletters so you don’t miss any website updates or catalog additions.

Find them listed on the Cane & Basket Weaving Supplies Directory™

  • Basketmaker’s Catalog
  • H. H. Perkins
  • North Carolina Basket Works
  • V. I. Reed & Cane, Inc.
  • Peerless Rattan

If you already subscribe to any of these chair caning or basket weaving newsletters, what’s your favorite way to get them? Do you prefer email delivery or do you get your blogs and newsletters by RSS feed?  Happy Weaving!

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Chair Caning and Basket Weaving Supplies

October 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog

Looking for chair caning and/or basket weaving supplies? Then look no farther than the Cane & Basket Supplies Directory™ on WickerWoman.com

Chair Caning Supplies

Chair Caning Supplies--Strand Cane, Cane Webbing, Wide Binding Cane

Some of the over 30 supply companies specialize in chair cane, providing the best in strand cane, machine woven cane webbing, reed spline and wide binding cane.

chair cane and round reed supplies

Chair Cane and Round Rattan Reed Supplies

Others might have a fantastic selection of tools, chair seat weaving instruction books or basket patterns.

chair caning tools

Chair Caning Tools

And still others carry the more hard-to-find barks to weave both chair seats and baskets with; birch bark, hickory bark, hand-processed oak strips or machined ash and black ash and Shaker tape. Or they may carry waxed linen, beads and gourds for basketmaking projects.

chair caning books

Various chair caning books that should be in your personal resource library

Whatever you need to weave chair seats, baskets or gourds that you can be proud of, you can find the supplies at one of the companies listed on the Cane & Basket Supplies Directory™ on WickerWoman.com

Enjoy and Happy Weaving!

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SATURDAY SUPPLIER– H. H. Perkins Company

April 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog

Today’s SATURDAY CANE & BASKET SUPPLIER listed on the Cane & Basket Supplies Directory on WickerWoman.com is the H. H. Perkins Company.

Located in North Haven, Connecticut, they are one of the oldest basketry and cane suppliers in the United States, having begun in 1917.

Besides being the sole importer of the wonderful European rattan reed, (great for baskets, I’ve used it for years), they sell strand cane, sheet cane, stool and chair frames, instruction books, tools and teach seat weaving and basket weaving classes at their store.

I was just surfing around on the site and discovered some great canvas tool bags and canvas totes, all in wonderful brilliant colors! See what I mean by going to this page of their website http://hhperkins.com/index.php/cPath/14_138

Owners Ray and Caryl DeFrancesco have branched out a bit and are offering new rattan and all-weather wicker furniture and also offer a custom window treatment service.

For all your basket weaving and chair caning supply needs, be sure to check out the H. H. Perkins Company. Proud Founding Member, original 2007 Board Member and Corporate sponsor of The SeatWeavers’ Guild.

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Saturday's Cane & Basket Supplier

January 2nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog

Our featured Saturday’s Cane & Basket Supplier

BasketWeavingSupplies.com–(formerly JB-Designs) is located in Shirley, Massachusetts and owned/operated by Jennifer Rhodes.  Jennifer bought the business three years ago from another Jennifer, Jennifer Baum and moved it to its current location.

BWS is a one-stop weaving supply company.  They offer almost 100 basket weaving kits from beginner to advanced weaving levels and over 600 basket weaving patterns from many well-known weavers from all over the country.  In addition they sell superior quality basket weaving reeds, beautiful hard wood bases, red oak D handles, dyed reed and the list goes on and on.

Call BasketWeavingSupplies.com when you are starting your next basketry project and Jennifer will personally help you select all of the items you need to make the project come out great.

Jennifer herself teaches basketry in her studio weekly and has taught for the Northeast BasketWeavers Guild and is heading to North Carolina to teach at the convention there in March.  She is happy to share her knowledge with all of her customers and help them create a beautiful, functional work of art.

Check out their extensive website TODAY! on the Cane and Basket Supplies Directory ™ at WickerWoman.com!

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