Does Your Wicker Furniture Need to Shape Up?

WEDNESDAY WICKER WISDOM–Does your wicker need some repair help?

Have the years taken a toll on your antique wicker pieces? Does your wicker need to shape up?

Need a little refresher course as to what wicker actually is and what materials are used in its construction? Then take a look at some of the Wicker Articles listed here.

Are your wicker pieces in need of some drastic TLC? But they are not quite ready to be relegated to the flower garden to act as a plant support like this one in the picture below?

Broken beyond repair wicker rocker repurposed to a plant support for my peonies. — Wicker rocker beyond repair, used as plant support

Now don’t everybody get your knickers in a twist–I only suggest you treat your wicker as a plant stand in the garden, IF it is totally beyond repair.

Get your piece evaluated first by a wicker restoration expert before doing any further damage!

Take extremely good care of your wicker furniture pieces because once they are gone, they are gone for good, you can’t make a new antique.

The Wicker Woman–Cathryn Peters

Learn how to care for your wicker furniture using some of the following helpful hints and tips below.

Peters repairing Victorian wicker highchair — Cathryn repairing a Victorian wicker highchair

To treat a wicker piece like this, leaving it outdoors, if it could be repaired or restored, would be a crime in anyone’s book, don’t you agree? Not sure what to do to keep your antique wicker in good shape?

Please take a look at this article that will tell you all the steps in caring for your wicker furniture, “How-to Care for Antique Wicker Furniture“

If you need any more hints and tips with wicker furniture, be sure to take a look at the Wicker FAQ page, where I answer some of the most commonly asked questions about wicker and how to care for it.

Damaged 1890s open-weave reed wicker rocker — Weather-damaged reed wicker rocker

Here’s a gallery of photo steps that I used to repair a Victorian rattan reed wicker rocker with a Star of David woven cane back. Victorian Wicker Rocker Repair Process

1920s white painted Lloyd Loom Baby Go-Cart with wooden wheels. — 1920s white Lloyd Loom baby go-kart stroller

Now you have some hints and tips on how to care for your antique wicker furniture and how to keep it in shape for years to come.

In case you’d like to do some wicker repair yourself, check out this very detailed book, How to Buy and Repair Wicker Furniture by Thomas Duncan.

I love to hear about your wicker or maybe about your treasured family heirloom wicker. What kind of wicker furniture do you have? How do you care for your wicker furniture?