Have you ever woven a natural cattail leaf chair seat? It’s an age-old craft that not too many seat weavers practice anymore, but is very rewarding, fun to do, and can be quite lucrative because it’s so rarely done anymore in this day and age.
Over the years, on a fairly regular basis, I’ve taught hand-twisted cattail leaf rush seat weaving at folk schools, woodworking schools, and basketry guilds to make sure the craft is not lost to future generations. And shortly, I will be offering online courses here on my site.
During the summers, I also demonstrate the craft at local historical societies’ functions, pioneer days events, city centennial celebrations, historical re-enactments, and art & craft shows. And through The SeatWeavers’ Guild, Inc., at our Annual Gatherings across the country.
If this blog post has piqued your interest and you’d like to learn more about hand-twisted cattail leaf rush chair seat weaving, stay tuned for the online courses I will be offering soon.
You might like to also visit the cattail leaf articles pages of my website and also watch the videos about cattail and bulrush seat weaving on my YouTube channel.
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Happy Weaving, until next time!
This blog was intriguing. In all my years of weaving (50+) I have never tried weaving with cattail leaves. Your seats certainly look nice.
Thank you, Rodney, for the very nice compliment! Hand-twisted cattail leaf seat weaving is actually my favorite kind! I think I did my first one in 1976 or so and have a picture of a pair of Hitchcock chairs that I did in 1977. They might even be somewhere here on the site.
Is this bench cattail leaf or paper leaf weaving. Can it be stained or ? Thank you.
Hello Faith,
I’m not sure what bench you are referring to. If you mean the small rectangle stool toward the bottom of this post, it’s natural cattail leaves that we are hand-twisting to form the weaving strands.
Hope that answers your question.
Looks like fun.
Thanks for leaving your comment on the cattail rush seat weaving Loie, maybe I’ll offer a class in Cook sometime or demonstrate at the Spring Art Expo!