How Does Your Cane Bottom Look? Bottoms Up and Take a Gander!
Today’s WEDNESDAY WICKER WISDOM deals with the way the bottom or underneath side of a hole-to-hole cane chair looks, NOT your own bottom, thankfully!
How neatly do you tie off the ends of your cane strands when weaving a 7-step pattern traditional hole cane seat? If you follow my directions and use my “No-Knot” system of dealing with the ends it won’t look like the one below in this picture. Can you believe that hot mess? Yikes!
This is just about the worst job of tying cane knots on the bottom of a chair seat as I have ever seen! And to top it all off, the caning pattern was done all wrong, too.
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The bottom of your hole-to-hole cane seats should look more neat and attractive like this:
To get the smooth, nice look to your cane bottoms without tying all those nasty knots, look at my video the “No-Knot System of Tying Knots”
Here’s the finished product using the traditional 7-step pattern in this hole cane seat:
To get all your cane chair seats to look this good, see my FREE Chair Caning Instructions article page!
How does your bottom measure up? Please leave your comments below and tell me what techniques you use to keep your bottoms lookin’ good!
Catheryn, I’ve been weaving chair seats for 30 years and I HATE tying off the ends – what a revelation! I can’t wait for the opportunity to try your method. Thanks.
glenda
Oh that’s fantastic Glenda, glad I could help you out. I’ve been using this “No-Knot” technique since I first started chair caning back in 1975 after examining some old cane seats from the 1880s and that’s the method the previous caner had used.
IT is easiest to apply stain to cane seats or backs by sloping the cane about 45 degrees and starting at the top , going side to side and progessing downward[ the liquid runs downward] PRESTO an even and quicker job…..stephen
Hi Stephen, thanks for your post about staining the cane seats on chairs and sharing your technique!