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Chair Caning Businesses on Facebook Pages

February 24th, 2012 · No Comments · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog

 

FRIDAY FEATURE–Chair Caning on Facebook Pages

We are having a great time over on the Seatweaving & Chair Caning Forum with the discussion about making Facebook business pages for your chair caning business! Chair Caning Forum Logo 2011

I started the thread by telling the caning forum members that it’s an easy thing to do, setting up a business Facebook biz page, and is a great way for you to advertise and post pictures featuring your chair caning skills.

The Wicker Woman Facebook Fanpage

And then I began telling them some tricks of the trade on how to get the word out faster and better and get followers quickly.

In February of 2009, I began my own personal profile Facebook page as well as setting up my business Facebook page and currently have over 500 fans at
The Wicker Woman!

As many of you may not realize, when you first get your FB page, it’s assigned a name (that you choose), but then there’s a bunch of numbers and gobbly goop following that in the URL.

Now we all know that those URLs are hard to remember so, after your business page has 25 followers or more, you can request from Facebook for an easy to remember URL or name for your FB page. How cool is that? Remember too, that when you choose the name for your page, that it’s all case sensitive.

chair caning on curved back

Here are some of the brand new Facebook Pages just made up within the last few days as a result of this discussion thread on the Chair Caning Forum, please go visit and become their latest fan! Make a comment there on the page and include your FB page URL (web address), so they know to also go to your fan page and “Like” you back.

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And if you have your own web site or blog, be sure to link it to your Facebook business page and vice versa, make sure your Facebook business page has a prominent link back to your web site or blog.

Tom Papeika
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tom-Papeika-Chair-Repair-and-Reseating-Services/219156971513606

Sissel K. Bakkelund
http://facebook.com/sisselschairs

Mindy King–The Chair Weaver
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mindy-King-The-Chair-Weaver/235471756544682

Craig Phillips
https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/B-C-Empoirum/113533929577

B & C Emporium antiques and original hardware
http://www.b-c-e.biz

The Seat Doktor–Richard Knotts
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Seat-DoKtor/327813590566310

Katherine K. Wilson-Weaving Restoration
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Weaving-Restoration/229192984494

Bruce H. Kreymborg
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Bruce-H-Kreymborg-Antique-Restoration/299522663443656

Kerri the Weaver
https://www.facebook.com/kerritheweaver

Do YOU have a Facebook Fan Page that we should know about?

Go to my fan page at The Wicker Woman and tell us about it!

Also feel free to post some pictures and leave comments, so I know you were there.

The Wicker Woman Facebook Fanpage

~~ Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much ~~
Until next time, Happy Weaving!

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What? Three Types of Chair Caning?

February 8th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog

WEDNESDAY WICKER WISDOM — There are three main types of chair cane seats. Really, did you know that? Can you identify and name them all?

 

chair caning samples at TSWG Gathering

Various types and designs of chair caning.

 

Here’s a little hint about the three names of chair caning to choose from ~~

Do YOU know the difference between these cane seat patterns and materials?

  • hole-to-hole cane, hand caning , or lace caning seat
  • pressed cane, spline cane, cane webbing chair seat
  • porch cane, wide binding cane, or binder cane seat

1. Here’s an example of the hole-to-hole cane, traditional hand caning, or lace cane seat where the individual strands of cane are hand woven through a series of drilled holes around the perimeter of the chair seat frame.

 

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Hole-to-hole hand chair caning

 

2. This is an example of a spline cane seat, sheet cane or cane webbing seat where the machine woven sheet of cane is tamped into a groove that’s been routed out around the perimeter of the chair seat and held in place with a reed spline.

 

removable spline cane seat

Spline cane, sheet cane or cane webbing

 

3. And here is an example of a wide binding cane seat, porch cane or binder cane seat, where the wide binding cane strands are woven around the seat frame rungs both top and bottom creating a double layer of cane. Frequently the design on the top of a stool or chair seat would be in a diamond pattern with a simple twill or herringbone pattern on the bottom or back. This type of chair seat pattern using this material was/is very popular with chairs and rockers used outside on a porch, hence the name, “porch cane seat.”

 

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Porch cane or wide binding cane chair with woven seat and back

 

Example of wide binding cane footstool with dyed cane to accentuate the diamond pattern weave.

 

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Footstool with diamond design in dyed wide binding cane

 

Well now, you will be able to go into any antique store, flea market or used-a-bit store and figure out just what type of cane seat you spot and know the materials it takes to fix it!

See the Cane ↦ Basket Directory™ right here on WickerWoman.com if you need some weaving materials and tools to complete your project.

And if you are not quite ready for that DIY project and want someone else to do the chair cane repairs for you, visit all the Seatweaving Experts listed in the National Furniture Repair Directory™, here too.

Happy Weaving! Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much~~ cathryn-signature-3

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Chair Caning in Lightning Speed

January 26th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog

Ran across this wonderful Youtube video today by the folks on the KeewaydinExpedition Channel on how to weave a hole-to-hole cane seat on a canoe seat. Nothing really special about the process, EXCEPT it’s been photographed in fast motion and is so fun to watch! Captivating!

I’m a fast weaver, but this sure puts me to shame. Happy Weavin’ Ya’ll …
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Chair Caning Repair Experts–Monday Mention

January 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog

MONDAY MENTION– New Additions to the National Furniture Repair Directory™ Seatweaving section on WickerWoman.com!

Star of David Chair Caning

With the addition of these three new listings there are a total of 97 Seatweaving/Chair Caning businesses listed in this section alone, 13 are in the Wicker Repair section, 8 in the Furniture Refinishing and 5 in the Upholstery Repair section.

We are so blessed to have these businesses that care about preserving, restoring and refurbishing all these fine furniture pieces, saving them from the garbage dump and maintaining them as a record of our history.

And I am especially blessed to have the majority of the business listings with me since 2004, when I began the National Furniture Repair Directory™.

Be sure to read some of the Testimonials and then if you want to get listed also, visit the Furniture Repair Directory-Advertise page to sign up. Happy Weaving!

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First blog post for Weavin’ Wicker Woman in the New Year 2012

January 3rd, 2012 · 4 Comments · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog

The Wicker Woman-Cathryn Peters Although this is not the first day in the new year, it is my first post for the year.

One of the things I’m going to try to impliment again this year is to be more productive here on the blog and make posts more often and consistently. If you blog, have you made a similar goal for your blog?

Hubby and I spent the holidays with our children, grandchildren and other relatives and had a very nice end for 2011 and beginning of the New Year 2012.

Now today, we are both spending time in our shops. He’s doing “car stuff” in the garage and I’m straightening up my “art studio.” Both in the same building, but each in our own little “hobbit” hole. Will be posting pictures of both here soon.

And now, maybe you’d like to read my very first blog post written EIGHT years ago on July 16, 2004. Enjoy!

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