FRIDAY FEATURE–Recently Mindy King, Vice President of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc., taught a splint seat weaving class at Woodcraft in Parkersburg, West Virgina.
The kind folks at Woodcraft made a wonderful video documenting the restoration of “Mammaw’s Rocker” and subsequent seat weaving class. Click above on this blog title to Read More and see the video. Enjoy!
MONDAY MENTION–Today I wanted to share with you a beautiful, well-crafted website about a chair caning business called Edge of Your Seat, which is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Chair caning expert and owner Donna Kim, has been an advertiser on my National Furniture Repair Directory™ for many years now. I’ve always admired her quality weaving restoration work as well as the website design and spectacular photography of her work. Edge of Your Seat has an awesome, awesome website, one you need to check out NOW!
As you’ll see, Donna does a wide variety of seat weaving designs and patterns and has worked on some of the most difficult chairs built by famous designers such as the Wishbone chairs of Hans Wegner.
She has also repaired Danish cord L-nail chair seats, a rather unique Danish cord saucer chair and several folding chairs and also seagrass wicker, footstools and rush design out of seagrass.
Check out the whole array of chair seat weaving services Edge of Your Seat offers their customers, plus register for one of Donna’s upcoming chair caning classes. Looks like they are tons of fun and you’ll learn a lot!
As I mentioned before the photography work and the website design itself is marvelous, so Emerging Design & Photography by Stephanie Bell is to be highly commended for a very well done website!
Well, that’s all for now, stay tuned for more! And be sure to mention when you visit Edge of Your Seat that you found her on WickerWoman.com’s National Furniture Repair Directory™ and Blog.
A while back I made a post about weaving with paper fibre rush and the perils of not stuffing the seats with cardboard or something else to protect the strands. http://www.wickerwoman.com/tuesday-tips-paper-rush-weaving.html
I was having problems with my photo editor on the blog that day, so was not able to post the picture of the seat I was describing. So are some pictures and reasons to help you get the idea of how and why to stuff the gussets on a paper rush chair seat.
I used a rasp first to soften the edges of the rails, before doing the weaving and adding the cardboard. Then all I needed to do was to add several layers of cardboard triangles into the gussets or pockets of both the top and bottom of this rush chair seat. Then it’s protected and keeps the rail from breaking the strands when someone sits on the chair seat.
Here’s a picture of the four gussets or pockets on the top side of the rush seat, already stuffed with the cardboard triangles.
And here’s a picture of the bottom, stuffed with the cardboard triangles also. Only one layer of cardboard was needed on both the top and bottom of this chair, since the seat rails were very flat (instead of being made out of round dowels) and the pockets created were rather flat, too.
And here’s the final completed woven paper rush seat on the 1915 Colonial style ladderback arm chair, but before the final finish of varnish was added. Doesn’t that look nice?
For those of you living in and around the states of Texas and Maryland, there have been some new chair caning businesses added to the
National Furniture Repair Directory™ recently! Both ads are marked with the New! so you can’t miss them.
American Caning Company in
Linthicum, Maryland
Little Jack Horner’s in Aledo, Texas
Contact these great chair caning businesses to get your family heirloom and/or flea market finds repaired today!
Get your broken down chair seats needing chair caning, rush, splint, Danish cord fixed here!
New additions to the Chair Caning & Seatweaving Experts section of the National Furniture Repair Directory™
Just click on the State abbrevations in the Directory for all these new listings for chair caning in Mississippi, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Illinois: NEW!
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:
*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:
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.
Today’s cane and basket supply company from the Cane & Basket Supplies page of WickerWoman.com, is Peerless Rattan Company located in Plainwell, Michigan.
Peerless Rattan Company is the oldest cane and rattan company in the United States, started in 1903. Owners Ed and Cindy Hammond bought the business a few years ago from most recent owner, Ohio businesswoman, Helen Cribbs.
Peerless Rattan carries a complete line of cane, rush, splints, reed, tools and instructions for the beginner and consummate professional chair caner. They are the only United States supplier of the English seatweaving tool called a “chair caning steamer,” which helps speed up the chair caning process.
Take a look at Peerless Rattan Company’s ad today and tell them you saw this blog post and heard about them through Weavin’ Wicker Woman’s Blog and the Cane & Basket Supplies page on WickerWoman.com!
Shari MacLeod from Nova Scotia, Canada, blogger of Red Twig Brown Twig is our MONDAY MENTION, although it’s a day late because of the Memorial Day observance here in the United States.
I simply love viewing other blogs and connecting to them through Google Friend Connect and Networked Blogs programs, especially when the blogs are also connected to Facebook and Twitter accounts so we can see everything they are up to!
And whenever I visit a blog that has a “Slideshow” posted, I am intrigued enough to watch the entire show! Which brings us to our featured blog post today on MONDAY MENTION.
I clicked on several blog links on other people’s list of favorites and stumbled upon the Red Twig Brown Twig blog. While watching Shari’s slideshow, I discovered much to my delight, that she is also a basketmaker and a chair seat weaver, among her many talents!
Take a look at this post about the Shaker tape footstools she made to see what I mean, then visit the rest of her wonderful blog. Thanks Shari for being my MONDAY MENTION blog!
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