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Shipping woven chair seats for repair–Tuesday Tips

February 1st, 2011 · 2 Comments · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog

removable spline cane seatNeed to have your favorite cane or rush chair seat rewoven? The chair caning or paper rush is shot and you can’t use the chair anymore?

Did you use the National Furniture Repair Directory™–Seatweaving section to find an repair expert? But they’re located far away from you, maybe in another state?

Well, you’re in luck if  you have the type of chair seat that can be removed from the framework. Let your chair caning expert know you have this type of seat, unscrew it from the frame, then pack it well and ship it off to them.

Be sure to prepay for the shipping both ways and send the return shipping label inside the package along with the seat.

removable hole-to-hole cane seatAlways be sure to send a separate packing slip on the top of the packing materials, that has your name and address as well as the name and address of the person you are shipping the package to.

That way if the shipping address is destroyed, smudged or anything else has happened to it, someone could open the package and know where it is going and/or where to send it back.

Then after all the repairs are completed the weaver can just send it back to you. Viola!

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Directory ™ on WickerWoman.com Celebrating Sixth Year Online!

March 19th, 2010 · Comments Off · What's New

Little did I realize that in the six years that my National Furniture Repair Directory has been online, would it have served so many people–customers as well as the advertisers listed there!

Starting with just a handful of chair caners, wicker repair folks, furniture refinishers and upholsterers from the Seatweaving & Chair Caning Forum , we have now grown to 85 listings in the Seatweaving/Chair Caning section alone!

In March of 2004 there were several antique repair directories already set up, but mine was the first and only that focused on primarily the Chair Caning and Wicker Restoration specialists.

Since there was so much cross-over from the specialty sections though, (many chair caners and wicker repair folks were also furniture refinishers or upholsterers), I decided to include those restoration sections also.

Many of my advertisers have been listed with me for all the six years, since March of 2004! And of course a few drop out due to changes in circumstances, and yet several more decide to sign up to take their place, once they see the great benefits of this specialized advertising vehicle!

So, if you are a customer looking for a restoration business to take repair, fix or restore your prized family heirlooms, flea market finds or antiques restored to their former glory, be sure to visit the National Furniture Repair Directory on WickerWoman.com for all your needs!

And if you are a restoration business in the fields of Seatweaving/Chair Caning, Wicker Repair, Furniture Refinishing, or Upholstery, be sure to sign up by filling out the form and making your payment through the PayPal buttons on the Advertise page of WickerWoman.com!

Hope to see you all soon, it’s been a great pleasure providing this information resource for everyone for so many years!

 

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WEDNESDAY WICKER WISDOM-Chair Seat Weaving

December 10th, 2009 · Comments Off · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog

Did you know that “chair caning” is but one of several different design patterns or techniques of chair seat weaving or chair seating?

And that there are many, many different kinds of materials to use in weaving all the other types of chair seat weaving?

For each of the techniques and methods of weaving listed below, the weaver uses a different type of material and weaving pattern and/or design.

There are basically three different kinds of chair caning alone:

  • Traditional Hand or Hole-to-Hole Caning–uses strand cane
  • Sheet Cane or Cane Webbing–uses loom-woven “sheet”
  • Porch Cane or Round the Rung–uses wide binding cane or slab rattan

*See my eHow.com article on  “How-to Identify the Three Types of Chair Caning“  (Please read, rate and add your comments.)

But there are several other kinds of chair seatweaving also, besides caning. However, the general public mistakenly tend to call all weaving techniques and materials, “chair caning.”

Here are a few of the other types of chair seat weaving, which I will discuss thoroughly in future posts:

  • Natural Cattail Leaf Rush and Paper Fibre Rush
  • Splints of oak, ash, hickory bark, or flat reed,
  • Seagrass
  • Danish Modern Cord
  • Rawhide
  • Skeined Willow
  • Whole Willow

Visit the Seatweaving and the Pricing/Charges tabs of my website for a quick description and photos of what’s to come from this series ahead of time, if you’re curious.

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Hand-Twisted Rush Seatweaving in 2008 Campbell Folk School Catalog

December 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off · Weavin' Wicker Woman Blog


I received the 2008 full-color catalog for the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina today! It features my hand-twisted natural rush seatweaving class, offered June 29-July 5, 2008.

I poured over each class listing (after reading the description of my Hand-Twisted Natural Cattail & Bulrush Seatweaving course, first), and was really impressed by the vast number of new classes and new instructors.

I must admit though, I was disappointed that they did not use any of the pictures I sent along with my course description. They certainly would have helped to advertise this very rarely and never-before-offered class at the Folk School.

Featuring the photos might also expose more potential students to the experience of working with such unusual materials, thereby resurrecting this nearly lost art of hand-twisted natural rush seat weaving.

If you have some previous experience in seat weaving, or would just like to experience this creative and historic weaving technique, sign up for the class right away. If you wait and the minimum students are not signed up in advance, the class will be canceled.


You can go to their website and request a catalog, or sign up immediately online. http://www.folkschool.org
phone: 1-800-FOLK-SCH or 1-828-837-2775

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