How-to Videos by TheWickerWoman

Need a little bit of help with your chair seat weaving? Watch these how-to videos by Cathryn Peters, which show chair caning tips, directions for harvesting cattails and bulrush seat weaving projects, and harvesting birch bark for baskets and necklaces.

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Chair Caning Tips Playlist

Here’s a selection of Chair Caning Tips of the Day, for short, direct hints and tips that will help you master your chair caning weaving techniques.

*Click on the video below in the upper right-hand corner to expand the playlist of 12 on the right sidebar.

Natural Hand-twisted Rush Playlist

These videos show how to harvest and process cattail leaves for seat weaving. And also demonstrate how to weave hand-twisted cattail and bulrush chair seats. (Five in this playlist)

*Click on the video below in the upper right-hand corner to expand the playlist of 5 on the right sidebar.

Natural Rush Seat Weaving

Birch Bark Wood Pile Harvesting Playlist

Join me as I harvest some birch bark from the firewood in my yard. I make tiny necklace baskets and small plaited baskets with this bark, so don’t need to get big sheets of bark.

*Click on the video below in the upper right-hand corner to expand the playlist of 4 on the right sidebar.

Birch Bark Harvesting

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