Furniture Repair Directory™

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80 King Street, Eustis, FL 32726, USA
352-589-6607352-589-6607
352-589-6607

WICKER, CANE & RUSH WORK   “Sagging Seats – Our Specialty”

Heirloom pieces are always resurrected with museum-quality work. All types of cane work, ash and reed splint woven seats, and rattan furniture lovingly restored. Owner Tricia Vandewater learned chair seat weaving from her mom over 45 years ago as a child.

“We’ve never met a piece of furniture we couldn’t bring back to pristine condition.”

(SUB-1/21/24)

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Lanexa, VA 23089

WOVEN FURNITURE REPAIR–

JC Caning specializes in hand cane, pressed cane, flat reed, round reed, splint, fiber and natural rush, seagrass, Danish cord, and shaker tape.

Services include cleaning and refreshing the finish, minor repairs, and sealing of finished weave if required. Staining to match is extra.

Approximate estimates can be given from a photo but are subject to change as each project is unique and may provide certain challenges.

Pickup and delivery are available for New Kent County and surrounding area. Call, text or email to discuss your restoration and make an appointment.

Visit my website for more information, testimonials, and photos of completed work.

Business Member and Treasurer of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.®

(3/01/23)

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20 Arch Street, Abington, MA 02351 USA

Two shops in one–The Chair Man specializing in antique chair restoration; chair caning, fiber and natural rush, splint, Shaker tape and regluing the joints of chairs. The Tea Lady specializes in antique and vintage porcelain, pottery and glassware.

Over 20+ years of seatweaving experience and service. Pickup and delivery available for local Boston area.

Keeping wonderful (sometimes very old) chairs in use and circulation is our goal. We love the stories of how many chairs have been handed down within families or found on the side of the road.

Visit our website, see our work samples and us at antique shows!

Business Level Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.®

(12/24 GFSUBTC)

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40386 296th Street, Arlington, MN 55307, USA
507-964-5887507-964-5887
507-381-0904507-381-0904

Debbie Weckwerth Chair Caning is a home-based shop with over 30 years experience, offering all types of chair seatweaving, hand caning, prewoven cane, splint, porch cane and wicker repair. Sample patterns on display.

Easy one-hour drive from Minneapolis with a south-central location.”Quality work with reasonable prices keeps repairing your antiques affordable.” 

(3/1/23)

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Outing, Minnesota 56662, USA

The Professional Upholsterers’ Association of Minnesota (PUAM) is an organization of individuals and firms, joined together to advance, support, and promote the field of Upholstery in Minnesota.

We meet monthly to share and learn techniques that will help us better serve our clients. Our website lists our members so clients can find a business in their area. Also, each member’s listing focuses on their specialty to help prospective clients find an upholstery shop that fits their project.

Join our organization today so you can take advantage of these benefits that we provide for our members:

  • PUAM Newsletter with free classified Ads
  • Listing on the PUAM website
  • Networking Opportunities
  • Educational Presentations
  • Resource List of Services
  • Swap and Sell Meets
  • Group Marketing Discounts
  • Group Buys
  • Trade Show Participation

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82 Cullman Road, Arab, AL 35016, USA

Chafin’s Chair Caning and Seat Weaving conveniently located between Huntsville and Birmingham, AL, has served Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia since 1999.

Services include caning (hand, pressed, and blind), rush, binder cane, seagrass, Danish cord, Shaker tape, and reed. We also offer classes, re-gluing, custom baskets, and hand-tied brooms. Call for pricing and hours.

(MO/23/TC)

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11629 West 800 South, Westville, IN 46391, USA

Jules Caning Shop, located in Westville, IN is a home-based seatweaving business with 13-years experience.

We specialize in hand caning, pre-woven cane, rush, split weave, Danish cord, leather seat inserts, and wicker furniture repair.

Services also include minor repairs and regluing of frames and free estimates after a physical assessment.

Pictures may be sent via text or email for a rough estimate, final quote on physical inspection.

Business Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.®

(10/1/TC)

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18 Magnolia Ave, Long Island, Maine 04050, USA

Ellen Harford, owner of Island Maide, learned her craft at an adult education class.

Since taking that first class, which sparked her entrepreneurial spirit, Ellen has been providing chair seating in a variety of weaving techniques and materials for 30+ years.

Island Maide creates handcrafted seating to replace worn or broken chair seating. Services include traditional hand caning, pressed cane, half-round oval seatweaving and rush, extending the life of memorable family heirlooms.

Located on an island in Casco Bay in Maine, Ellen has made it her mission to help bring business and the arts to the island community.

She’s doing her part by adding chair caning and other types of seat weaving repair services.

Fee-based pick-up and delivery services within 50 miles of Portland, Maine are also available.

(10/05/MO-TC)

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918 Maple Street, Perrysburg, OH 43551, USA

Carrie Weiss, owner of Black Swamp Seat Weaving, LTD, was taught to weave by her grandmother at the early age of 15.

Her grandmother patiently taught her to take pride in her work, weave the best she possibly can, and to continually challenge herself.

After 45+ years, she continues to do this to this very day.

Over the years since Carrie first began weaving, she has expanded her abilities to include ALL forms of weaving, such as, hand cane, blind cane, cane webbing, rush, splint, and wicker.

She works on weaving projects for individuals, museums, refinishers, upholsterers, interior decorators, and many others.

Carrie also treats every project with the care and meticulous attention it deserves, while taking on some of the most difficult projects.

Every project is a challenge that she is confident she will complete.

Not only does Carrie care about the finished project and the happiness it will bring her customers, but she also loves what she does, and it shows.

(11/05/TC)

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Duncan, Oklahoma 73533, USA
405-708-3063405-708-3063

For 30+ years, Karen Scott, owner of H P Basketry and Caning LLC located in Duncan, OK has woven baskets and provided chair caning services in the area and well beyond.

This quality business includes all types of chair seat weaving; hand caning and pressed cane webbing,  Shaker tape and rattan in many patterns.

Wicker repair, basket repair, and minor structural repairs are also included, as is customer advice about the best stains and finishes to use on their heirlooms.

(6/23)

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PO Box 861, Riderwood, MD 21139-0681

Chairperson-Antiques–Owner Mical Wilmoth Carton is a chair seat weaving expert with nearly 50 years of seat weaving experience. She specializes in the repair of all types of hand woven furniture including:

  • Hand and Machine Cane
  • Danish Cord and Danish Weave Cane
  • Fibre, Natural and Pretwisted Rush
  • Shaker Tape
  • Binder Cane and Porch Weave
  • Hong Kong Seagrass
  • Cotton Cord
  • Wicker & more!

Please visit the “Chairs” page on my website for additional pictures of chairs reseated over the years. Contact by phone or email is welcome.

Founder & Cottage Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.®
(TC 2/13/24)

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188 Park Ridge Lane, Aurora, IL, 60504 USA

Hank’s Cane & Rush Restoration specializes in Hand Cane, Machine Cane Webbing, Paper Rush, Danish Cord, Shaker Tape and more. Sadly caning and rush seat weaving are fast becoming dying art forms and it is our intent not to let that happen. Each chair we see in the shop comes with a story or has a story yet to come!

Our mission at Hank’s is to restore your chair or furniture piece while refreshing the memory that accompanies it! Or possibly it’s a chair with memories still to unfold! Whatever you do, don’t throw that chair out without talking to us first! ~ Lynn

Business and Board Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.®

(5/1/23)

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212 Turlock Dr, Big Bear City, CA 92314, USA

Welcome to Brad’s Backcountry Woodshop in Big Bear Lake California. Located high in the mountains of southern California I create new wooden furniture pieces as well as refinish and restore the old. I will fix dings, dents, raised or missing veneer, broken and missing pieces, spindle turnings, reweaving your cane, rush and splint chair seats, polishing old finishes.

Fine instruments to chairs, simple to complex, French polishing, color matching, toner, glazing, grain filling, these are just a few processes I take each piece through. Each piece already has a story to tell and when I am done it will have many more to tell.

These are just some of the things I have had the honor of working on and bringing back its original beauty to last another 100 years. When working on old pieces of furniture I always wonder about the hands that have touched the piece prior to mine, the conversations that took place around a hundred-year-old dining room table or the music created by a 110-year-old reed organ that no one outside that room has heard today.

I started working with wood at a young age, as my Grandparents on both sides and father had all the necessary tools and knowledge about woodworking for me to become comfortable in working with wood. My Mom also as early as I can remember was bringing home antiques and of course, most of them needed repair.

Without knowing it at the time I was not only learning how to repair wood furniture but also was paying attention to the construction of older furniture, joinery and finish used. For long-lasting furniture, I realized proper joints, finish and proportion is essential to a great piece.

Please browse my site and see what you like! If you do not see what you are looking for in the site, just go to the contact page and tell me what you need! I am willing to work with you to create the wooden piece you have in mind or to fix whatever’s broken.

Just e-mail pictures to me so I can give you a ballpark estimate. I will pick up and deliver pieces close to Big Bear Lake, CA. If you happen to live outside California we can schedule or discuss pick up or delivery options.

Thanks for stopping by and let’s connect on social, too!

(3/01/23)

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439 Lee Road 2183, Salem, AL, 36874 USA

Saggy Bottom Girls Caning has moved location! In August 2022 we moved our residence and business from Greenwood, Indiana to Salem, Alabama! We are now offering our chair seat weaving services in and around the Salem, AL area, which is 1 1/2 hours south of Atlanta between Columbus, GA and Auburn, AL. 

We specialize in cane, fiber rush, seagrass, flat reed, binding cane, and others.  We are a home-based family business and I personally weave each chair.  We also work with local restoration companies should your chair need structural repairs.

I started this business several years ago as a way to spend time with my dad.  People began asking me to fix their chairs with saggy bottoms and that is how the business began.

This is also how I came up with the name. It’s a play on the movie “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” starring George Clooney, and my Saggy Bottom Girls Caning seemed like an interesting twist to their Soggy Bottom Boys band.

Business Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.®

(4/01/23)

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15 Mountainview Drive, Pleasant Valley, NY 12569, USA

The Chair Shop providing seatweaving since 1960, hand or pressed cane, splint, rush, Danish cord, and Shaker tape. We also do chair re-gluing and have free pick up and return and give free estimates, too.

Servicing all 5 boroughs of metro New York City, NJ, also greater Poughkeepsie area Millbrook, Rhinebeck, Cold Spring, greater White Plains, NY area. Call 1-800-980-8344 for details and ask for John.

(8/3 TC)

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Hanover, PA 17331, USA

Stephen Ambrose -“The Chair Seat Weaver” is a 4th generation professional chair seat weaver. After a recent move in early 2021 from York, Pennsylvania, where he lived and worked for many years, Stephen is now providing chair seat weaving services in Hanover, PA.

Stephen uses natural materials in the hand-weaving techniques of hole-to-hole cane or lace caning, press-in cane fabric or spine caning, and also does handwoven splint seats.

Stephen takes on minor furniture repair too, so if your pieces need some TLC in that area be sure to inquire about those services.

“Please call or email and I’ll get back to you to schedule your appointment and give directions to my shop. Looking forward to meeting you!” – Stephen Ambrose, The Chair Seat Weaver.

To put a face with the name, check out this Youtube video! Stephen’s chair caning talents were featured on the local TV station where he used to work as a broadcasting engineer before retiring!

Steve Ambrose-Retired Broadcasting Engineer now Chair Caner

A few years ago, ABC27, a local broadcast station in Pennsylvania, did a spot on Steve on their newscast, too.

Steve Ambrose, Pennsylvania Seat Weaver on ABC Channel 27

(10/22/TC)

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14392 Hoover St, Westminster, CA 92683, USA

Citizen Cane Chair Restoration is a full service furniture restoration shop providing heirloom quality furniture restoration services including chair caning, rushing, wicker/rattan work, furniture refinishing and repair work including upholstery services.

We offer free inspections and quotes at our Westminster shop by appointment. We also operate out of our Kern River shop biweekly.

We are Frwy close to all southern California counties.

We service all areas by receiving shipped items. Removable seats for instance can easily by mailed to us.

Feel free to email us pictures and/or questions about your project to: [email protected]

We look forward to meeting you and your furniture!

Thank you for your opportunity!

(12/19/MO-TC)

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4277 Preston Street, Paris, IL 61944, USA

David W. Dick Chair Caning has performed expert cane seat weaving and restoration, serving Illinois, Indiana, and the greater Midwest, since 1975.

We weave strand cane, sometimes called lace cane, and loom-woven (pressed cane), wide binding cane, and splints.

We gladly stain to match the original material and furniture. And are always more than willing to discuss your seat weaving needs including giving free estimates.

Nothing leaves our shop until it’s perfect — count on it! References available upon request.

Proud Charter and Cottage Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.® (TSWG)

(12/24 GFSUBTC)

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360D-2487 Kaladar Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 0W9 Canada

BeSeated.ca has been providing seatweaving services to Canada’s national capital area for over fifty years.

NEW OWNER & NEW LOCATION: In 2019 Michael Freen acquired the business from Pierre Amyotte, the previous owner, and relocated Be Seated to Ottawa, Ontario.

We provide quality repairs to furniture woven in a variety of materials, including hand and pre-woven cane, Danish cord, rush, seagrass, reed, splint and rawhide.

We also carry seatweaving supplies for customers who would like to repair their own furniture.

Please have a look at our website for a full list of supplies and services we have available and check out our Instagram for photos of our latest work.

Proud Cottage Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.® (TSWG)

(Sub-2/18/25)

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202 Agnes Lane, Linthicum Heights, MD 21090, USA

At American Caning Company we repair or replace almost all types of chair seat weaving; traditional, French, Star of David, Daisy, Snowflake, Spiderweb, plastic, and sheet caning with over 30 types and color matching.

Other specialties include; ash, reed, and oak splint, seagrass, Danish cord, paper and pre-twisted natural rush, Shaker tape, hickory bark, chair gluing, repair and restoration.

Call or email today to discuss your project and to set up an appointment!

Cottage Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.®

(6/1/23)

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