I’m heading out the door in just a few minutes for teaching a three-day chair caning workshop at North House Folk School in Grand Marais, MN. But before I leave home am printing out the Chair Caning Instructions page of my website, using the Printer Friendly tab for my students to use in class and at home. If you are curious about doing […]
Are you confused about what type of woven chair seat you have? Is all seat weaving called, “caning”? Help is on the way! The resounding technical answer to that question is, “No” all chair seat weaving is not called, “caning.” There are numerous types of weaving techniques and materials that make up chair seat weaving. All chair caning weaving techniques go by certain names, […]
Quick and easy way to choose the right size cane for your project Are you confused as to what size chair cane you need for your next project? There are a lot of different chair cane gauges and sizes used in chair cane weaving. So, how do you determine what size chair cane to use on your next project? The usual way to determine the […]
#CaneSpotting Vintage Ballonoff Hot Mats All you chair nerds will be happy for the score I just made while out scouring the antique stores and second-hand shops! Sometime last winter in 2011 I purchased three vintage chair cane motif trivets or hot mats at a thrift shop nearby called, Rick’s Relics in Tower, Minnesota. (2017 update: they have recently closed and are no longer […]
Chair Caning as a Hobby or Business? Are you new to the chair caning craft? Maybe you’ve just taken it up as a hobby or have you decided to make chair caning your part-time or full-time business profession? Been struggling with the “little things” and need some helpful pointers or chair caning tips to speed up your weaving and improve your skills? Visit TheWickerWoman […]
TUESDAY CANING TIP–Skipping Holes and Rows We’ve had a lively discussion going on in the Seatweaving & Chair Caning Forum™ recently about the practice of skipping holes and rows while weaving a hole-to-hole cane seat. Whether the seat is round, trapezoidal or horseshoe-shaped, several of us “old timers” have learned how to take shortcuts and use the strands of cane to their best […]
TUESDAY WEAVING TIPS–Revised Cane Webbing Tutorial Page Today’s tip is an update on a How-to page I posted many months ago here on WickerWoman.com under the Articles index page, FREE “How-to Install Cane Webbing” Instructions. Although I had this article accepted and posted for several years on eHow.com, when they changed their writer’s policies a couple years ago, I pulled it off the site. I […]
How and Why to Make Caning Fish Heads Remember a while ago (Yikes, it was last year in 2011), when I made a blog post about Finding the Right Chair Caning Hole when you are weaving the diagonal cane strands? Well, I discovered a video that I had made back then about that very topic called, Chair Caning Tip of the Day–Making Fish Heads […]
Do you know there’s a right and wrong way of weaving with strand chair cane? Whaaaat? There’s a wrong way to weave a strand of cane when chair caning? “No wonder I’m so frustrated,” you say? Yes, believe it or not, there is a correct way and direction to pull/weave the strands of cane on a hole-to-hole cane chair seat to make sure you don’t […]
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 […]
Welcome! I'm Cathryn a 40+ year veteran chair caner. I love helping seatweavers, basketmakers, wicker fixers, and DIY creatives to improve or fine-tune their skills by providing biz tips, education, strategies, and encouragement! Let's weave up some magic together!
