National Furniture Repair Directory™

Jan’s Chair Caning & Wicker Repair is a home-based business owned by Janet Noall, with over 40+ years experience in ALL TYPES of chair seat weaving, wicker furniture repair, and basket repair.

Want to learn how to cane chairs yourself? Jan also teaches FREE chair caning classes through the Park and Recreation Center in Cuyahoga Falls, OH on Mondays from 9 a.m.- 2 p.m.

Make an appointment today to get seatweaving TLC for your precious possessions today or to find out more about the FREE chair caning classes so you can DIY and learn from the pro!

Founding Member of The SeatWeavers’Guild, Inc.®

(Sub-11/4/20)

Step-In-Time-Antiques is a home-based business specializing in hole-to-hole chair caning, pressed/machine/spline cane, and binder cane in various patterns (e.g. herringbone, New England Porch Weave, Finger Lakes Fan Weave, etc.), paper fiber rush and Shaker tape weaving. Will do some minor structural repair. Free estimates and local pickup/delivery. Good rates!

Charter Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.®

(Sub-1/21/21)

Saggy Bottom Girls Caning offers chair seat weaving services in and around the Indianapolis, Indiana area.  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.®

(4/01/21)

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 Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.®

(5/1/20)

At Kinghan of Kalifornia we are a three-generation family business with nearly forty years of restoration experience. Our specialty being all types of seat weaving, chair repair, restoration, and upholstery.

“I love what I do and get great satisfaction giving a new life to a loved piece of furniture.”
“After all this time, I still get wicker or cane pieces that I’ve never seen before and I love a challenge.”

Free estimates, local deliveries, by appointment. Call or email for directions to my shop.

Charter & Cottage Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.®

(2/1/20)

Hi, I’m Dick Zechiel, owner of Ohio Chair Caning and an expert chair caner with over 15 years of experience. I do handwoven, pressed cane, and fibre rush chairs. I work out of my home, doing quality work at reasonable prices. Please call for a quote and appointment.

(3/01/20)

Lauren’s Chair Caning, a home-based seatweaving business, has been restoring and repairing cane and wicker furniture in the Dubuque, Iowa area since 1979.

Specialty weaves include hand-caning, pressed cane, French or blind cane, rush, Danish cord, and splint reed. Lauren also offers some minor furniture repairs and gives FREE repair estimates.

Call or email today to schedule your appointment!

(1/01/21)

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 1/21/20)

Located in the lovely Green Mountain State of Vermont, The Lost Arts Workshop is dedicated to carrying on the craft and tradition of chair caning and seat weaving.

Our current restoration services include:

• Strand Cane
• Pressed Cane
• New England Porch Cane Weave
• Fibre Rush
• Flat Reed

We are always striving to grow and expand, so check back with us often to see what new services we can offer.

Free estimates are gladly provided and local pick up and delivery are complimentary.

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

(8/1/21)

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.

(8/1/21)

In Walnut Hollow, found in the countryside of Southeast Tennessee, lies the quaint workshop of April Greer, a self-taught craftsman with over 20 years experience in the repair and replacement of many seat patterns and weaves, including rare and specialty patterns.

April is a practitioner of many heritage arts, including natural basketry using materials she harvests and prepares, and believes in honoring the past and passing on what she has learned by teaching classes.

April prefers to fix an aged chair rather than throw it out and looks forward to helping preserve a part of your history.

Business Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.®

(4/1/20)

Natural Environments is a seat weaving business in Waukesha County, Wisconsin started in 1979. Owner Rita Brown offers expert weaving in hand caning, pre-woven cane, Shaker tape, flat reed and binder cane weaves. She takes pride in restoring your chair to an attractive, useful piece of furniture. Send a picture to share with her. Mailing Address: PO Box 17, North Prairie, WI 53153

(Sub 1/4/21)

Since 1978 REED WEAVER’S commitment has been to the continuing appreciation of wicker as an art form through quality wickerwork.

In 1996, Reed was the first Minnesota artist invited to show her work at the new Neiman Marcus Gallery in Minneapolis, MN.

And in 2011 she was contracted by an airworthiness inspector for Boeing to create a replica of the original wicker seat used in the Spirit of St Louis airplane that Charles Lindbergh flew. The project was completed in June of 2012. Reed named ‘her’ Spirit Sophia and has included Spirit Sophia’s photo here.

Reed Weaver services include:
• The careful repair and restoration of wicker and rattan
• Stripping, refinishing, painting of wicker and rattan
• Cane, Rush, Splint and Danish Seating
• Custom design and fabrication of wicker furniture and accessories

Call or email for appointment and directions to the REED WEAVER studio, please.

(Chair Caning–11/01/20)
(Wicker–11/01/20)

Herard Seat Weaving is located in Waterville, serving central and mid-coast Maine. We can bring new life to your cane, rush or wicker chairs, benches, and rockers. Every piece from antiques to modern and contemporary chairs can be renewed with a hand-woven seat.

Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.®

(4/1/21)

Murray Hill Weaving, is a chair bottoming specialist using cane, pressed cane, hickory bark, splint, and Shaker tape – emphasizing patterns that match the style.

Also offering basket and wicker furniture repair, basket & seatweaving classes and retail caning and basketmaking materials. I’ll restore items or teach you to do it! Located in central New Hampshire, we’re inviting you to visit and stay a while.

(3/1/20)

Chair caning expert Helen Cribbs, owner of Chairs Caned in Delaware, OH (2019 new city location) provides experienced and fair priced handwoven and pressed cane, plus wide binding cane in several patterns. (I now refrain from taking on wicker & fibre rush).

I have been in this business for over 30 years and since I work from home my pricing stays reasonable. When possible, I offer pick-up and delivery within a reasonable distance from my shop.

Several furniture refinishers and upholsterers in Dayton, Columbus, and Tipp City, Ohio keep me busy honing my craft.

Visit my website where you will find several patterns for the DIY chair seat weaver. The 7-Step Strand Caning pattern is especially detailed with diagrams. All are free to download and use.

(11/1/20)

Richard Saunders is an antique wicker furniture repair expert with over 40 years experience and is the author of five books on antique wicker furniture, including Collecting and Restoring Wicker Furniture — the first book published with a how-to chapter on wicker repair.

Several years ago, he relocated from CA to Savannah, GA, bringing with him over 40 years of experience in restoring, writing about and appraising antique wicker furniture.

Now after a sabbatical from the day-to-day activities of wicker furniture and cane repair and restoration, Richard has decided to once again offer his quality wicker restoration services. So, if you have a wicker piece that needs some repair or restoration work, contact Richard today for an appointment.

Richard will also continue to serve the antique wicker field certified wicker furniture appraiser. So don’t throw out a valuable and irreplaceable piece of our American wicker history. Just because you don’t know what kind of wicker you have, when it was made, who the manufacturer was or what the value is now, doesn’t mean it’s not still valuable. STOP! Before you toss your wicker–get it appraised by the certified wicker appraiser expert first!

Richard provides certified, fee-based wicker furniture appraisals at $25 per piece. His appraisals can be used to establish a value of your wicker pieces for a variety of purposes such as heirloom/ inheritance, estate, resale, insurance, moving damage claims, and even court cases if necessary. Richard’s appraisals also include historical information, notes on style and design, dating the piece and proven or likely manufacturer.

Certified appraisals are given only after a physical inspection or through a series of good quality photos sent via email or postal mail. Richard Saunders is one of only a few whose appraisal certification specialty is antique wicker furniture. Contact Richard today for an appointment so you will be knowledgeable about your wicker furniture, too.

Mr. Saunders is also offering brand new copies of WICKER FURNITURE: A GUIDE TO RESTORING AND COLLECTING (Crown Publishers; 1990). This is a 245-page, large-format paperback book which includes an 8-page color photo section, hundreds of black and white photos and lots of fascinating information on antique wicker furniture. This is a perfect addition to anyone’s personal reference library.

This book went out of print several years ago but he has a limited supply of NEW copies which he purchased from the publisher’s warehouse. He would be happy to personally sign your copy. Price is $20, including shipping and handling.

Contact Richard today to order your signed book, WICKER FURNITURE: A GUIDE TO RESTORING AND COLLECTING or to get your wicker piece evaluated and appraised for its proper value!

Honorary Lifetime Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.®

(2/01/21)

Anderson’s Restorations in Yadkinville, North Carolina with over 35 years in business are chair caning and wicker repair experts with experience in all types of seating – Caning, Splint, Rush, Danish Cord and Shaker Tape.

We do special weaves such as Spider Web, Star and Blind Cane along with patterns like Carolina Close Weave and Adirondack Rustic.

We also restore wicker and rattan totally woven furniture, specializing in restoration of the Jolly car seats, along with doing some furniture refinishing.

Visit our website and Facebook business page for details and more pictures, links are posted in our contact area.

Business Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.®

Seatweaving (8/01/21)
Wicker (10/01/20)

The Seat Doktor has more than 15 years experience as a seat weaver in hand woven and loom-woven cane, fiber rushing, wood and reed splint seats, and Shaker tape. Color matching for cane replacements is also a specialty. Light chair repair, pick-up and delivery available. Free estimates.

Cottage Member of The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc.®

(SUB–11/4/20)

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 it’s 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 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!

(3/01/21)